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- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who are activists and to envision themselves as activists.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
On any given day, there's always something I'd rather be doing than facing the ugly, racist underbelly of America.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I no longer believe that we can 'fix' the police, as though the police are anything other than a mirror reflecting back to us the true nature of our democracy.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I understood the full extent of the trauma experienced by people who churn through America's prisons until I began taking the time to listen to their stories.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Susan Burton's life story - filled with trauma, struggle, and true heroism - is precisely the kind of story that has the potential to change the way we view our world.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The love affair between black folks and the Clintons has been going on for a long time. It began back in 1992, when Bill Clinton was running for president. He threw on some shades and played the saxophone on 'The Arsenio Hall Show.' It seems silly in retrospect, but many of us fell for that.
- Colors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history.
- Discriminatory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and desperation.
- Dr. King
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my view, the most important lesson we can learn from Dr. King is not what he said at the March on Washington but what he said and did after the march. In the years following the march, he did not play politics to see what crumbs a fundamentally corrupt system might toss to the beggars for justice.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am still committed to building a movement to end mass incarceration, but I will not do it with blinders on. If all we do is end mass incarceration, this movement will not have gone nearly far enough.
- Beside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Martin Luther King Jr. could have argued that separate water fountains were too expensive, a waste of money. He would have been right about that. But cost was beside the point.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
People return home from prison and face legal discrimination in virtually all areas of social and economic and political life. They are legally discriminated against employment, barred from public housing, and denied other public benefits.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court has eviscerated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, giving the police license to sweep communities, to conduct 'stop and frisk' operations.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe it is possible to bring an end to mass incarceration and birth a new moral consensus about how we ought to be responding to poor folks of color and a consensus in support of basic human rights for all. But it is going to take some work.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020