Portinari Altar Quotes & Sayings

While there is widespread recognition that the War on Drugs is racist and that politicians have refused to invest in jobs or schools in their communities, parents of offenders and ex-offenders still feel intense shame - shame that their children have turned to crime despite the lack of obvious alternatives. One mother of an incarcerated teen, Constance, described her angst this way: "Regardless of what you feel like you've done for your kid, it still comes back on you, and you feel like, 'Well, maybe I did something wrong. Maybe I messed up. You know, maybe if I had a did it this way, then it wouldn't a happened that way.'" After her son's arrest, she could not bring herself to tell friends and relatives and kept the family's suffering private. Constance is not alone. — Michelle Alexander

Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul. — Dean Koontz

Christlikeness is a journey, not a destination. The joy is in the journey. — Charles R. Swindoll

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car. — Alain Prost

Sometimes the hardest one to see ... is the one standing right before you. — Lenore Wolfe