Phrase by 'Susan Burton'

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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 you're ill-equipped to actually embrace it and work it.

Author: Susan Burton - American Activist
  You , Work , Day , Identity


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

Author: Susan Burton - American Activist
  Up , Born , Knew , Caged


I went to pick my son up from school and walked him back and was in the house preparing dinner, and he came in the house and gave me this flower of chrysanthemum that was full of ants. And he went back out to play and ran out into the street and got hit by a car. The car happened to be driven by a LAPD detective.

Author: Susan Burton - American Activist
  Me , Car , Son , Flower


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 a weekly routine for my father. He was a proud black man, and that all sort of vanished as America began to export jobs.

Author: Susan Burton - American Activist
  Black , Man , Father , Car


Nothing good could ever have come of my life if I hadn't been able to get therapy and overcome my addictions.

Author: Susan Burton - American Activist
  Life , Nothing , Good , My Life


There are so many bright people who just need an opportunity to help others and pay it forward.

Author: Susan Burton - American Activist
  Help Others , Help , People , Opportunity


Unless we address those that are leaving prisons, we can't begin to repair the damage of mass incarceration and make our communities whole and healthy once again.

Author: Susan Burton - American Activist
  Again , Leaving , Healthy , Repair


Our ancestors went through so much in a fight for us to vote. So I believe that we should engage in all civic participation. It's healthy engagement.

Author: Susan Burton - American Activist
  Fight , Us , Believe , Vote


Each time I left prison, I left with the resolve to get my life together, to get a job, to get back on track. And each time, the task became more and more and more daunting.

Author: Susan Burton - American Activist
  Life , Time , My Life , Together


Long before I ever got incarcerated, I should've been able to access services that help me deal with the grief and the loss of my son, that help me deal with the trauma, the abuse that I experienced as a child.

Author: Susan Burton - American Activist
  Me , Long , Son , Grief


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