Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.

It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not con­ceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind.

A fair trial would have been no trial at all.

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?