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Michelle Alexander

“What is key to America's understanding of class is the persistent belief - despite all evidence to the contrary - that anyone, with the proper discipline and drive, can move from a lower class to a higher class. We recognize the mobility may be difficult, but the key to our collective self-image is the assumption that mobility is always possible, so failure to move up reflects on one's character.”

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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