I say this thing about how I've never had to say my head is bloodied but not bowed, like everybody who came before me had to say. And that tells me t….

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice..

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it trea….

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality..

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison..

If we want to be proud of our country, if we want to be proud as Americans, if we want to be proud of our history, then we can't talk about the thing….

That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thin….

All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone..

I love museums, and I think they're fantastic, but they don't touch the people who I frequently think need to be touched with at least some reminder ….

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an ….

I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change..

Why do we want to kill all the broken people?.

There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be the people we ….

You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic a….

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful….

We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discr….

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the lega….

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers ….

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice..

There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a c….

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?.