Failure Quote by James Forman, Jr Download Open image “Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison.” — James Forman, Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failure Never Prison Reason Try
How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that… — Amaury Nolasco Copy Share Image
There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at good jobs in this country, but we cannot expect them and should not expect them to change the nature of policing. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share
One consequence of racism and segregation is that many American whites know little or nothing about the daily lives of African Americans. Black America's… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
Most people that take jobs as police officers are taking them because they're good jobs. Many who go into these jobs are doing it… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
I clerked for a judge, William Norris, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals right after law school and then for Justice O'Connor the… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
I find it very frustrating how much passing the buck there is in the criminal justice system when it comes to taking responsibility for… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
You can get rid of the teacher certification requirements, and you're still not going to have a rush of incredibly high-quality people going into… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
“Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes,… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
“Rhiannon's Law #28: If you're going to fuck up, be sure to fuck up good and proper. Nothing makes failure acceptable, so you might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
First action was a mistake. What about the second? third? fourth and fifth?...Mehn you are bad... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)” — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to… — Tom Segev Copy Share
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
