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Olayemi Olurin Quotes

Olayemi Olurin is a Bahamian-American lawyer, political commentator, writer, and abolitionist thinker.

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I don’t find it so discouraging when you get the pushback, because what I’m really hoping for you to do is hear the things. Hear the ideas and recognize that. Because it’s about effectiveness.

It might seem cliché to blame societal ills on the media, but the relationship between our country’s comfort with mass caging and the depiction of crime and punishment that we see in popular culture seems more than coincidental.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Olayemi Olurin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.