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“African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“It's a false premise to say that most monogamous people have chosen monogamy. Most people belong to the religion they were raised in...because that's what's familiar. That's the milieu they grew up in, and, for better or worse, they're just continuing the pattern. Until this traditionalist mindset is shaken loose, you would likely try from reflex to impose notions onto nonmonogamy that are not only untenable in the new context but spel sudden and messy doom even in situations that otherwise could be worked out.”
― Anthony D. Ravenscroft, Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful

“So herein lies the paradox and predicament of young black men labeled criminals. A war has been declared on them, and they have been rounded up for engaging in precisely the same crimes that go largely ignored in middle-and upper-class white communities—possession”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness