James Forman, Jr.
Books by James Forman, Jr.
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Locking Up Our Own
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The Point Issue 17
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Quotes by James Forman, Jr.
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Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.
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The fundamental problem for the teaching profession is how undervalued it is and how underpaid teachers are.
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African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or street criminals. Far from ignoring the issue of crime by blacks against other blacks, African-American officials and their constituents have been consumed by it.
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A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act.
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