Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

Courage is a finite resource, it is exhausted by the terrors we face.