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

born 1967 United States

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The political strategy of divide, demonize and conquer has worked for centuries in the United States — since the days of slavery — to keep poor and working people angry at (and fearful of) one another rather than uniting to challenge unjust political and economic systems.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michelle Alexander (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.