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“I no longer saw the tattoos covering an inmate's face, or his threatening snarl. I saw his armor, and I knew that he, too, was buried under the debris of fear and pain that I had been, that we all are. And when I reached out to him with a sense of compassion, eventually he was able to meet me with the one thing we all have in common: grace.”

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Book:A Redemptive Path Forward: From Incarceration to a Life of Activism
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“Omar explained that Crips was anacronym for Community Revolution in Progress (...) They were first meant to offer guardianship and community to counter crime and violence. (...) Incidentally, the Bloods rose up for the same reason in 1972, except they were meant to provide protection from the Crips. So it was a self-perpetuating cycle of attack and defense.”

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