Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

I do believe that healing takes place on a number of different levels and that in fact black healing can be deepened by trying to heal across as well as within. But it could be that to call for black and Jewish healing without acknowledging the need for intra-black healing puts the cart before the horse.