13 Quotes by Danielle Sered

Accountability is not just about being or feeling sorry— it is about a set of actions that demonstrate remorse in practice. And it is not the feeling of remorse that delivers us from our shame— it is the practice of accountability in action. It is doing sorry.

If incarceration worked to secure safety, we would be the safest nation in all of human history.

I believe when we hurt someone, we incur an obligation. Period. Nothing changes that obligation – not our own history of pain, our unhealed trauma, nothing.

On the individual level, violence is driven by shame, isolation, exposure to violence, and an inability to meet one’s economic needs – factors that are also the core features of imprisonment. This means that the core national violence prevention strategy relies on a tool that has as its basis the central drivers of violence.