Michelle Alexander Quotes About Reality

• The education justice movement and the prison justice movement have been operating separately in many places as though they're in silos. But the reality is we're not going to provide meaningful education opportunities to poor kids, kids of color, until and unless we recognize that we're wasting trillions of dollars on a failed criminal justice system.

  Michelle Alexander

  Meaningful, Kids, Opportunity

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• Somos tontos si pensamos que vamos a acabar con el encarcelamiento masivo a menos que estemos dispuestos a afrontar la realidad de que enormes porcentajes de pobres van a seguir sin trabajo, bloqueados en la economía general, a menos y hasta que tengan una educación de calidad que les prepare bien para la nueva economía. Tiene que haber mucha más colaboración entre los dos movimientos y una mayor valoración del trabajo de los defensores de cada comunidad. Tiene que ser un movimiento por la educación, no por el encarcelamiento; por el empleo, no por las cárceles.

  Michelle Alexander

  Appreciation, Jobs, Reality

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• It's important to teach students about the reality of the system, that it is in fact the case that they are being targeted unfairly, that the rules have been set up in a way that authorize unfair treatment of them, and how difficult it is to challenge these laws in the courts. We need to teach them how our politics have changed in recent years, how there has been, in fact, a backlash. But we need to couple that information with stories of how people in the past have challenged these kinds of injustices, and the role that youth have played historically in those struggles.

  Michelle Alexander

  Couple, Struggle, Past

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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