Justice System Quotes

• The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Foundation, I Have A Dream Speech

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

  Sam Sheppard

  Mistake, Believe, Justice

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• As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

  Kelly Ayotte

  Intelligence Gathering, Justice, Criminals

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• I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Kids, Justice, Mind

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• Justice is no longer a concern of the justice system.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Justice, Concern

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• Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day.

  Gerald Kogan

  People, Justice, Innocent

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• The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery. The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.

  Randall Robinson

  Men, People, Justice

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• The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

  Michelle Alexander

  Punishment, Justice, Criminals

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.188, The New Press

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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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• The justice system is now just a system.

  Bob Enyart

  Justice

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• Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

  Tommy Chong

  Lying, Usa, Justice

  FaceBook post by Tommy Chong from Jan 04, 2013

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• The truth is the justice system does need review, there are troubling questions that need to be answered, law enforcement needs to respect the community and the community needs to respect law enforcement.

  Mario Cuomo

  Law, Justice, Community

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• Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right for the people they have harmed. [...] Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night.

  Piper Kerman

  Revenge, Night, People

  "Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison". Book by Piper Kerman, July 11, 2013.

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• I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  Thinking, Justice, Mentor

  "Q’Orianka Kilcher,BBAACCSS1‘Firelight’ Star, On Playing A Latina Juvenile Delinquent". Interview with Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

  Alexander Stille

  Justice, Accountability, Modern

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.

  Edna Buchanan

  Law, Justice, People

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• America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace.

  Jimmy Webb

  America, Justice, Criminals

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• People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

  Helen Garner

  People, Justice, Demand

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• I don't think it's necessary to feel guilty. Because I know that I'm still doing the work that is going to help more sisters and brothers to challenge the whole criminal justice system, and I'm trying to use whatever knowledge I was able to acquire to continue to do the work in our communities that will move us forward.

  Angela Davis

  Brother, Moving, Thinking

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward.

  Marilyn Mosby

  Passion, Heart, Way Forward

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Unfortunately, race still determines too much, often determines where people live, determines what kind of education in their public schools they can get, and, yes, it determines how they're treated in the criminal justice system.

  Hillary Clinton

  School, Race, People

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

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• In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

  Alan Dershowitz

  People, Justice, Guilty

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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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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• The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Opportunity, Keys

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.

  Michelle Alexander

  Fate, People, Justice

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.16, The New Press

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