Michelle Alexander Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• I think that we need to begin talking about what does it mean to create these safe spaces in our communities, to begin welcoming one another into our homes and into our communities when they're returning home from prison, people who are on the streets. We need to begin doing the work in our own communities of creating the kind of democracy that we would like to see on a larger scale.

  Michelle Alexander

  Home, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Millions of people are unable to vote due to felony convictions with the highest rates among black men. People in prison are denied the right to vote in 48 states, and while we accept that as normal in the United States, in other western democracies people in prison do have the right to vote.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, People, Black

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• In fact, in some countries there are actually voting drives conducted in prison! But here in the U.S., we seem to take the idea of democracy a bit less seriously and people are denied the right to vote not only when they are in prison, but also upon release in many states.

  Michelle Alexander

  Country, Ideas, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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