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

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.

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.

-Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

Get in the driving seat of your thoughts. You control them and they absolutely control your life.

Shadows and light deceived us, but sounds we followed true.

If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, there’s a sentence written especially for us.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Canadians shouldn't come down to Southern California and take jobs away from Mexicans.