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Brian Cochran
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“As Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, ‘Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
― Code of Conduct
― Code of Conduct
“If the police patrolled white communities with the same violence that they patrol poor black neighborhoods, there would be a revolution.”
― Chokehold: Policing Black Men
― Chokehold: Policing Black Men
“The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and drug offenders speaks volumes regarding who is viewed as disposable—someone to be purged from the body politic—and who is not. Drunk”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Imprisonment, they say, now creates far more crime than it prevents, by ripping apart fragile social networks, destroying families, and creating a permanent class of unemployables.28”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Chronic neglect,” notes the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, “is associated with a wider range of damage than active abuse, but it receives less attention in policy and practice.”[2]”
― The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
― The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
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