I see this for what it is. It is not a victims' rights issue. It is not a victims' services issue. The issue is an attack on the Catholic institutions.

It is demeaning and extremely embarrassing and every bit as violating as a sexual assault. It ought to be treated as a sexual assault case, and the penalty ought to be harsh in a case like this. Disorderly just doesn't cut it. This is in a different league altogether.

This isn't a meeting of discovery. It's a meeting to get some questions answered that the family have and I have.

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

Even as human rights norms have steadily evolved over the past half-century, the field of citizenship has remained one of the last bastions of untrammeled state sovereignty. As a result, citizenship creates a giant loophole in the international human rights framework.

What ultimately happens is that they become the parents of what we know of as the civil rights movement and ultimately have so much to do with where the Latino community is today and without them in that crossroads it probably wouldn't have happened.