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I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the Iraq War. The first anti-Bush protest in Atlanta was the first protest that I'd ever been to, and I helped organize the school walkout when I was a junior. It was a really solidifying moment.

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If somebody is acting maladjusted - which means not happy to be at Rikers - the protocol, as I understand it and have been told by COs unofficially o…

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I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

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We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American …

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I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

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I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.

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I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is someth…

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You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative therapy.

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I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a …

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My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

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