I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

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.

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

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

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.