Henry Louis Gates Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Believe, Thinking, Law

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

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Justice, Criminals

• Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Art, Lynching, Justice

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2014). “The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism”, p.30, Oxford University Press

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