Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.

Instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, let us instead learn from our history and avoid repeating the mistakes of our past.

Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.

This is the President's version of diversity. It's a contest to see who can hate us more. [Bush] couldn't possibly distance himself more from the people he's supposed to serve.

We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.

Don't let these defendants push us back to the day when police officers could beat people with impunity, and arrest people for no reason and lie about it to cover it up.