10 quotes found
“I cannot think who my residents hurt but how I can give them tools to remain on the right side of civilization.”
“They tell me how they are not scared to die, but they are terrified of the lives circumstance forces them to lead.”
“Most of the time, all the separates a class president and a gang leader is numbers: a zip code, a paycheck, or a drug dealers phone number.”
“I have heard the predictable slew of insults, threats, epithets, and curses. Underneath all these, I hear their fear. They dont want to hurt me, though I may serve as a stand-in for a man who they ...”
“My students tag tables, walls, and chairs because their greatest fear is that no one will ever remember them. They do not believe they can give impassioned speeches, rally people in protest, paint ...”
“The most compassionate thing I can do for them is continuing to see their potential. They need to know that people are not going to abandon them because of their bad behavior. Only in the security ...”
“I look at my students and have no trouble picturing just how successful they should be, if only we could remove them from the impetuses that brought them to the facility. If we could move them away...”
“Society tells my students that people like them should aspire to prison the same way I understood I would go to college. They only listen to media that reinforces what theyve been told all their li...”
“Whenever my colleagues and I encounter a boy who acts "normal"not explosively violent, not oppositional to every word, not obsessed with killing and dying, not focused on sexual objectificationwe a...”
“Whenever my colleagues and I encounter a boy who acts "normal"—not explosively violent, not oppositional to every word, not obsessed with killing and dying, not focused on sexual objectification—we...”
