Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration has suffered. It is the poor, the sick, the ignorant, the powerless, and the hated who are executed.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.