When I get tired, I begin to lose my focus, patients, and desire to do things without cutting corners. Not making time to allow our self to catch up with it’s self is one of our greatest enemies. We  must find a stopping point in whatever we are dong when we reach this point. Costly and sometimes irreversible mistakes occur when we allow ourselves to continue on in this state. 

Rhon Johnson

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If we ignore the warning signs, how can we be safe? Danger awaits us regardless.

Rhon Johnson ( 1966 –      ) 

Have you ever stopped to think about where the majority of our prisoners come from? Most of them have been casted  away by all the rest of us. Yes, there are those that are just criminals and nothing else. But I’m talking about their origin, what it is that most of them have in common.  Take a look at these staggering statistics.  Over ninety per cent of them suffered child abuse and abandonment. I heard a story once that a particular card company gave cards to the prisoners to give to there moms on mothers day. Well, it was such a hit that the same company decided to do it again on fathers day.  When the request went out to the prisoner as to how many would like a card to send to their dads, to the companies surprise, they didn’t receive one request for cards to send to fathers. This story speaks for itself.  All in all, hurt plus alone, plus angry equals to locked up most of the time.

Rhon Johnson 

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Power Quote:

Our prisons are full of hurting young men and women. Many of them are there because they simply reproduced what was sown into there own lives.

Rhon Johnson. (1966 –      )

We should be very careful as we listen in to the pictures that the media paints for us everyday. They do not have our best interest at hand. Rarely, if ever do they give us an accurate portrait of what happened. The news is brought fourth in such a way that will cause ratings and or push certain agendas that benefit that news reporting agency for the long term. Therefore, if the truth will not cause one or both of those to happen, then we’re not going to hear the truth. We must not allow ourselves to lead blindly to the chopping blocks. We must know the truth for ourselves. Leaving it up to the media will cause our emotions to get on board with something that may not even be real.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quote:

What is largely missing in American life today is a sense of context, of saying or doing anything that is intended  or even expected to live beyond the moment. There is no culture in the word that is so obsessed as ours with immediacy. In our journalism the trivial displaces the momentous because we tend to measure the importance of events by how recently they happened. We have become so obsessed with facts that we have lost all touch with the truth.

Ted Koppel ( 1940 –     )