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

The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery. ….

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 ….

We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not e….

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no w….

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility..

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….

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

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 ….

You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart..

In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the….

It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don't run from challenges because that's more comfortable an….

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice..

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world..

It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and diffic….

We don't need police officers who see themselves as warriors. We need police officers who see themselves as guardians and parts of the community. You….

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….

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..

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….