Michelle Alexander Quotes

Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing, access to education, and public benefits. They're relegated to a permanent undercaste.

Michelle Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 7, 1967

Topics

EducationFreeLegalDiscrimination

We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.

John Fleming

WavesGoWashingtonStatus QuoAlong

When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.

Robert Redford

PeopleStartThinkingYouWrongOwn

The president is a president for all Singaporeans. Not only for those who have voted for me, but even for those who have not voted for me.

Tony Tan

MePresidentOnlyWhoEvenThose

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

Rita Moreno

TimeWarPeopleYouLast TimeSaw

The more you're playing, the more weeks you're going, the more you're into it, the more everything is flowing together.

Rob Gronkowski

TogetherYouMoreEverythingGoing

The days of trying to get a consumer to come to you are over. You really have to be in the consumer's world, wherever, whenever and however.

Mindy Grossman

WorldTryingYouOverDaysWherever

In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

Juan Williams

HistoryCollegeLoseElectionThree

I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then.

Janina Gavankar

TechnologyWantRaceHumanSeeLike

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

HeartMoneyManWiseWise ManHead

I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.

Dee Bradley Baker

LifeTimeSpeakConnectMiddle-Aged

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

Christopher Cross

ThinkOutArtistsJustEraStamp

We tend to think of racism as this interpersonal verbal or physical abuse, when in truth, that is only one way that racism manifests itself. The reality of contemporary racism is that it while it is ubiquitous, it is often invisible, subsequently making it more difficult to name and identify.

Clint Smith

TruthRacismThinkRealityNameWay

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