James Forman, Jr.
Books by James Forman, Jr.
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Quotes by James Forman, Jr.
-
Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.
Read quote
-
The fundamental problem for the teaching profession is how undervalued it is and how underpaid teachers are.
Read quote
-
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.
Read quote
-
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.
Read quote