Building Community/Facing Violence- Chapters 6, 8

"Clearly, zero tolerance determines action against people on the surface of things, not on content." Pg 73

The quote is saying that People of the community focus and judge people on how they look or how they dress rather than how they are and what they do for a living or to help society. This quote stood out to me because it shows how many people can judge you and not give you the opportunity to try new things or grow because of how they dress. For example, the members of the YSS were very respectful and clean after themselves, and the director of the hall that they were renting found out they were gangsters, he told them they couldn't be there anymore. An emotion that I evoked was shocked and thought it was unfair that people judge others by how they look or how they were in the past.

"Most of these women, which little or no support, have raised wonderful children" pg76

This quote is describing how single mothers have raised good children, just because the children have one parent in the household doesn't mean that they are going to become criminals or gangsters or something bad. This quote grabbed my attention because I can relate to it. My mom was and is a single mother of three children and we are not criminals. And our maybe people will judge because of where we are from but that is it because we all work and are striving to accomplish our goals. This particular quote made me get a chilly and emotional reaction because i connected to it for the same reason that people judge who you are based on what they see, just because they see that we have one parent does not mean we will become a criminal. That's how many people see children in their eyes.