Michelle Alexander

When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you’re given lectures about how it’s really all your fault, and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind. We can wind up harming people we care about with words or deeds, people who have done no harm to us.

- Michelle Alexander, NYT Telling My Son About Ferguson.
She is the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.