I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.

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

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.

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.

Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing

We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.

Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable.

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs.