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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.