When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have lionized these people, and we have romanticized their courage and their commitment and their tenacity, and we have completely eliminated the reality that created the Civil War.

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

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.

If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

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

The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us.