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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Consequences are unpitying.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.