"We must strive to live together in peace and harmony."

"Mass incarceration is a system of racial control."

"There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself over to despair. That way lays defeat and death."

"I am prepared to die."

"I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man."