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Susan Burton Quotes

American - Activist | -

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.

Life Time Together Job Prison Back

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.

Son Grief Child Me Loss Help

Insulin is a crisis medication.

Crisis Medication Insulin

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

Opportunity Help Others People Help

We continue to work on policy to end discrimination against people with criminal records.

Work People End Discrimination

Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.

Bridge Story Understanding New Your

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

Life Good My Life Therapy Nothing

Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.

Women Children Great Trauma Mine

Morning meditation is important to start every day on a positive note.

Positive Morning Day Start Every Day

It would have been great if there were a trauma center located in our community, where you could access grief counseling and be able to address it in a healthy manner.

Community Great Grief You Healthy

Life has took me on a journey, and through much of that journey, I didn't feel whole, connected, and grounded. So as a kid, everyone called me Sue. My daddy called me Susie Q. But through this journey, I've sort of risen to a place that I get this level of respect of Ms. Burton.

Life Journey Respect Me Feel Place

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.

Father Car Man Happy Child Proud

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