As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them — Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them — Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them — Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them — Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them — Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them locked up and locked out says far more about ourselves than it does about them.

— Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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