“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.com
“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.com
“Right now, we now have more African-Americans under criminal supervision than all the slaves back in 1850s.”— New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, imdb.com
“Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race—the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress yo…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”— Desmond Tutu, tutufoundation-usa.org
“What it means is that we are all sick and tired of seeing unarmed people shot by police officers, That young people in African-American communities are harassed by police officers, where police departments are not there to be supportive but are in many cases oppressive, and that’s an issue that has…”— Bernie Sanders, hollywoodreporter.com
“If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression.”— Jesse Williams, youtube.com
“We are all entitled to our opinions and religious beliefs, but we are not entitled to make shit up and then use the shit we made up to oppress other people.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”— Angela Davis, amazon.com
“Throughout history, we’ve seen oppressive governments consolidate and ensure their control over those they govern by taking away the means necessary for citizens to defend themselves. I own guns. Fortunately, I have never had to use them, but, believe me, I feel a lot safer knowing that they are the…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com