All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

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.

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.

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

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.