What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.

When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body. If women's reproductive rights come under attack, I will be standing up for women.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

Hang in. We’ll make it. We all have each other.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously.

I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

Night falling on the city Quite something to behold Don't it just look so pretty This disappearing world

Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.

Clarity breeds mastery.

When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.

I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.