“Empathy breeds proper judgment. Sympathy breeds sorrow. Contempt breeds arrogance…We all feel differently about a lot of things. Empathy gives you an inside view. It doesn’t say ‘if that was me…’, empathy says, ‘ That is me’.” “It’s not that crime is the issue. Crime still goes on daily. It’s that the politics surrounding crime have changed and it has become a numbers game. Dollars & Cents. You have people like Michael Jordan who invest millions of dollars in the prison system. Any shrewed businessman would if you have no empathy for the people locked up and you just want to make some money.” “People point their fingers at young blacks, call them thugs and say they need to pull up their pants. That’s fine, but you’re not feeding them any knowledge. You’re not giving them a vision. All you’re saying is be a square like me. They’re not going to listen to you because you have guys like Jay-Z and Rick Ross who are millionaires and sag their pants. Changing the way they dress isn’t changing the way they think. As the Bible says, ‘Where there’s no vision the people perish’…” Ray Jasper gawker/a-letter-from-ray-jasper-who-is-about-to-be-executed-1536073598
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