Summer Lee actually said...

"First of all, coming from Chicago, very large city, Houston, the fourth largest city in the Nation, the whole criminal justice system skews itself to inner city neighborhoods."

"I believe we were wrong. We were good in our intentions, but I think the evidence shows where 87 percent of those being prosecuted and convicted now for using crack cocaine are African-Americans."

"There is something better to incarcerating nonviolent criminals, who may have been caught up in the drug controversy or conflict."

"I don't think anyone in this room, made a large number of us, have been impacted by the horrific disparities or the unfair disparities that we have come to understand on the issue of crack cocaine."