We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.

If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.

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.

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

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.