Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first Confederate post office, there's a marker for a ball that Robert E. Lee hosted, there's a marker for where Jefferson Davis had a meeting. We love reminding people about all that was going on in the mid-nineteenth century.

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.

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.

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