Why do we want to kill all the broken people?

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.

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

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

Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight

The great idea is the one that is either saleable or is worthy of imitation.

-Bumblebee bat, how do you see at night?-I make a squeaky sound that bounces back from whatever it hits. I see by hearing.

Live your life so you don´t have to have any regrets when you throw your 70 year old birthday party

I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.

We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.

I think you and the referee were in a minority of one, Billy.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.