I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

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

Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.