We are never assured of justice without a fight.

When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.