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.

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

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

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

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.

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.

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.