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.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

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.

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.

You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to want to reconcile themselves to that truth.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.