Failure Quote by Susan Burton

“We all make mistakes. Sometimes people slip, but that doesn't mean they're not worthy of the support.” quote by Susan Burton — Download Open image

“We all make mistakes. Sometimes people slip, but that doesn't mean they're not worthy of the support.”

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Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.

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Insulin is a crisis medication.

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I can remember, as a child, the happy days of us all piling into the car and going to the drive-in. And that was…

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I knew hundreds and hundreds of women like me, who had traveled in and out of prison in a revolving door. They needed support and help just like I had received. And it could make a difference, just like it had made a difference in my life. I wanted to see them come back to the community and have a…

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Everyone needs a place to live. Everyone needs a place to come home to every night. I don't understand why our society, our government,…

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It's important the sheriff and the D.A. work with the community to realize real-world solutions. If they make decisions in silos, it will fall…

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I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

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The person who has been convicted has served their time. Why would we continue to punish and exclude them from housing and jobs? Those…

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One of the things about incarceration is that you're deprived. You lose all of your identity, and then its given back one day, and…

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We know that the environment and political information is important, and we expose and teach the women about some of the environmental factors that…

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If you don't have a new door to walk through, the only thing is the old door.

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Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.

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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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First action was a mistake. What about the second? third? fourth and fifth?...Mehn you are bad...

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God's love never fail :)

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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…

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“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)”

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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…

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