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.

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.

We all have a responsibility to create a just society

We don't need police officers who see themselves as warriors. We need police officers who see themselves as guardians and parts of the community. You can't police a community that you're not a part of.

Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.