“The United States is home to 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s prisoners. Think about that.”— Barack Obama, imdb.comTagged: America, Prison
“Right now, we now have more African-Americans under criminal supervision than all the slaves back in 1850s.”— New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, imdb.comTagged: Oppression, Slavery, racism, BLM
“Systems of oppression are durable, and they tend to reinvent themselves.”— Glenn Martin, imdb.comTagged: Oppression, Slavery, racism, BLM
“So many aspects of the old Jim Crow are suddenly legal again once you’ve been branded a felon. And so it seems that in America we haven’t so much ended racial caste, but simply redesigned it.”— Michelle Alexander, imdb.comTagged: Oppression, racism, BLM
“The Bureau of Justice reported that one in three young black males is expected to go to jail or prison during his lifetime, which is an unbelievably shocking statistic.”— Bryan Stevenson, imdb.comTagged: Oppression, racism, BLM
“In many ways, the so-called war on drugs was a war on communities of color, a war on black communities, a war on latino communities.”— Angela Davis, imdb.comTagged: Oppression, racism, Drugs, Latino, War on Drugs
“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black [people]. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt their communities.”— Unknown Official of the Nixon Administration, imdb.comTagged: Oppression, racism, War on Drugs, Hippie, Marijuana
“Dr. King, people forget, was not this beloved figure that everybody put on a pedestal. He was considered one of the most dangerous people in America by the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.”— Van Jones, imdb.comTagged: Slavery, BLM, racism, History, MLK
“But if you dismiss black complaints of mistreatment by police as being completely rooted in our modern context, then you’re missing then point completely. There has never been a period in our history where the law and order branch of the state has not operated against the freedoms, the liberties, th…”— Kevin Gannon, imdb.comTagged: Slavery, BLM, racism
“History is not just stuff that happens by accident. We are the products of history that our ancestors choose, if we’re white. If we are black, we are the products of the history that our ancestors mostly likely did not choose. Yet here we are all together, the products of that set of choices. And we…”— Kevin Gannon, imdb.comTagged: Slavery, BLM, racism, History
“We were not brought here to be made citizens. We were brought here against our will. We were not brought here to enjoy the constitutional gifts that they speak so beautifully about.”— Malcolm X, imdb.comTagged: Slavery, BLM, racism, History
“That's why when someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible because what it means is that the person who's asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidna…”— Angela Davis, imdb.comTagged: Oppression, racism, BLM
“People say all the time, ‘well, I don’t understand how people could have tolerated slavery?’ ‘How could they have made peace with that?’ ‘How could people have gone to a lynching and participated in that?’ ‘That’s so crazy, if I was living at that time I would never have tolerated anything like that…”— Bryan Stevenson, imdb.comTagged: Slavery, BLM, racism