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Are you the sum total of your worst acts?
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Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved.
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Slavery
Evolved
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I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.
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Enemy
Justice
Thinking
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Why do we want to kill all the broken people?
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Broken
People
Want
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We all have a responsibility to create a just society
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Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.
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Done
Worst
Worst Things
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All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone.
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Survival
Tied
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Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing
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Hard
Hard Things
Right Thing
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I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they've ever done.
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Done
Worst
Person
Thing
Believe I Believe Person
Believe I Believe Done
Each
Ever
Believe Done I Believe
Worst Thing
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I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.
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Comfortable
Resistance
Sometimes
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It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery.
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Celebrate
Defenders
Architects
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I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.
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People
Prison
Thinking
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If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.
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Community
Justice
Love You
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I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.
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People
Saws
Want
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You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.
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Heart
Ideas
Mind
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If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.
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Country
Love You
Thinking
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You can't segregate and humiliate people decade after decade without creating long-lasting injuries.
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Humiliate
Long Lasting
Decade
Injuries
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Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.
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People
Quiet
Sitting
Speak
Stand
Somebody
Other
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I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn't go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town.
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Beaches
Public Schools
Segregated
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The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.
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Care
Death Penalty
Penalties
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Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.
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Abuse
Injustice
Law
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I grew up in the country in the rural South, and I have a brother a year older than me and a sister a year younger.
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Rural
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I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.
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Poverty
Wealth
Opposite
Persuaded
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The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.
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Character
Poor
Treats
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I know this might be broadcast broadly. But I'm 52 years old, and I'm going to admit to you that I've never had a drop of alcohol.
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Alcohol
Admit
Never Know Old
Broadcast
Drop
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We've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but it's everywhere.
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Inequality
Legacy
Poor
Reflecting
Everywhere
Racial
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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.
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Justice
Opposites
Poverty
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I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same.
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Anguish
Status Quo
Creates
Quo
Status
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If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.
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Exercise
Inequality
Injustice
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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.
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Home
Country
Father
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We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it has prevented us from being healthy.
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History
Breathe
Healthy
Inequality
Burdened
Created
Racial
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That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.
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Consciousness
People
Provocative
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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.
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Life
Broken
Hurt
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You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to want to reconcile themselves to that truth.
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Demand
People
Want
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I love museums, and I think they're fantastic, but they don't touch the people who I frequently think need to be touched with at least some reminder of legacy.
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Museums
People
Thinking
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It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and difficult things.
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Believe
Dark
Heart
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It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don't run from challenges because that's more comfortable and convenient.
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Running
Challenges
Comfortable
Convenient
Legacy
People
Came
Challenge
Run
For The People
Least
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The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.
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Punishment
Race
Reality
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My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.
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Hopeful
Parent
Taught Us
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Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.
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Complicated
Impulse
Insight
Judgment
Lifelong
Maturity
Understood
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Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region.
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Community
Roles
Unique
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Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent.
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America
Important
Lynching
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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.
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Inspiration
Justice
Motivation
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Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.
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Grandparent
Law
People
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We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.
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Discrimination
Poor
Unfair
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In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.
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War
Powerful
Struggle
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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.
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Careers
Judging
Justice
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Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive.
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Capacity
Knowing
People
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Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.
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Benefits
Cost
Incarceration
Mass
Public Education
Support
Afford
Services
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Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.
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Lenses
Poverty
Race
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