Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

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

When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.

Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required to think as carefully and thoughtfully, and directly, about this legacy of racial inequality and structural poverty. And what it's contributing to these wrongful convictions.

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