Michelle Alexander Quotes About Challenges

Quotes about: Challenges

• The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to address the social, economic, and political challenges of our time.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Color, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• It's important to teach students about the reality of the system, that it is in fact the case that they are being targeted unfairly, that the rules have been set up in a way that authorize unfair treatment of them, and how difficult it is to challenge these laws in the courts. We need to teach them how our politics have changed in recent years, how there has been, in fact, a backlash. But we need to couple that information with stories of how people in the past have challenged these kinds of injustices, and the role that youth have played historically in those struggles.

  Michelle Alexander

  Couple, Struggle, Past

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• About 70% of those released from prison return within a few years, and the majority of those who return in some states do so in a matter of months because the challenges associated with mere survival on the outside are so immense.

  Michelle Alexander

  Years, Challenges, Survival

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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