You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.

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

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

You live in this world once. Let your true and authentic YOU get unleashed. The world is desperately waiting your unique brand unchained.

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.