“Today and Everyday I stand against Injustice and in solidarity with our Asian, Asian-American & Pacific Islander Brothers and Sisters.”

I believe that we have to come together, and we have to rely on the goodness of each other.

I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.

I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that’s a shame.

I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.

My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.

The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry’s class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to teach us all: Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.

I want to inspire kids.

That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.

You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened – good, bad, ugly, no matter what – I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.

We must absolutely take care of one another.

We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.

Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.

Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.

I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.

All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.