Criminal Justice Quotes

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

  Ben Whishaw

  Justice, Criminals, Flaws

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

  Ronald Reagan

  Justice, Long, Criminals

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.340, Best Books on

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• If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

  Francis Bacon

  Justice, Fairness, Ifs

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1844). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author”, p.311

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• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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  A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

  Jefferson Davis

  Law, Forever, Civil War

  John Joseph Craven, Jefferson Davis, Edward K. Eckert (1987). “"Fiction Distorting Fact": The Prison Life, Annotated by Jefferson Davis”, p.29, Mercer University Press

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• Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

  Tim Kaine

  Law, Issues, Justice

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strength, Umpires, Justice

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Justice, Judging, Criminals

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• Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Justice, Civilized Nations

  Oration on day of Justice Story's funeral, Boston, Mass., 12 Sept. 1845

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• Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Winning, Best Effort, Justice

  "All Police Interrogations Should Be Tape-Recorded" by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. October 08, 2012.

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• These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Teenager, Stupid

  Barack Obama's remarks after visit at El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 16, 2015.

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• America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

  Steve Earle

  America, Justice, Criminals

  "Death in Texas" by Steve Earle, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2001.

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• Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right.

  Theresa May

  Simple, Justice, Criminals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities.

  Susana Martinez

  Race, Ethnicity, Should Have

  "Susana Martínez Tells Police to Check Immigration Status in New Mexico". The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. February 01, 2011.

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• We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

  Kamala Harris

  California, Justice, Age

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• I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Justice, Criminals

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• We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

  Barbara Boxer

  Fighting, Justice, Environmental

  "Contesting Ohio electoral votes". Press conference with senator Barbara Boxer (d-ca) and representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones (d-oh), www.globalresearch.ca. January 9, 2005.

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• Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people.

  Paul Gillmor

  Children, People, Justice

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• Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.

  Michael Franti

  People, Justice, Musical

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• Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African American kids are unemployed. It is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Baby, Kids

  "O'Malley and Sanders interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters in Phoenix" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2015.

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• It's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man, you are more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated. So we've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, White Man, Racism

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

  Karl Kraus

  Justice, Criminals, Human Nature

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Race, Punishment, Justice

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

  Michael Connelly

  Writing, Justice, Police

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