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 and that's what we have to change.

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing

We all have a responsibility to create a just society