I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

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

You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.

In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it.

Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.

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

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.