We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American ….

I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to ….

My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh..

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public..

I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is someth….

You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative therapy..

I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore..

I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties..

I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a ….

If somebody is acting maladjusted - which means not happy to be at Rikers - the protocol, as I understand it and have been told by COs unofficially o….

Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that….

I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary..

I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should ….

I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Me….

I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park..