Criminal Justice Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of time it takes for the damage done by that to wash through our society and our communities, the disadvantages born out of kids being undiagnosed with mental-health problems early, or not getting the kind of exposure to reading and math when they're 4 or 5 or 6 years old, that carries a cost.

  Barack Obama

  Reading, Kids, Math

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks caught up in the criminal justice system. There's a problem when people profit from putting and keeping African Americans in prison. We need to do a better job as a nation understanding the real values the country's built upon in terms of fairness, equality and equal opportunity.

  Aldis Hodge

  Real, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned into reality. It is not enough to say domestic violence is a crime ?- in order for the laws to be successful, lawyers and courts must have the necessary means to prosecute it.

  Jon Kyl

  Mean, Successful, Reality

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• The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice system (or saddled with criminal records) is not - as many argue - just a symptom of poverty or poor choices, but rather evidence of a new racial caste system at work.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Cities, Justice

  "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, January 5, 2010.

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• I started off as a young lawyer working against discrimination against African-American children in schools and in the criminal justice system. I worked to make sure that kids with disabilities could get a public education, something that I care very much about. I have worked with Latinos - one of my first jobs in politics was down in south Texas registering Latino citizens to be able to vote. So I have a deep devotion to making sure that an every American feels like he or she has a place in our country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Jobs, Children

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• We've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.

  Hillary Clinton

  Racism, Justice, Criminals

  "Presidential debate: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's first clash - full transcript". www.independent.co.uk. September 27, 2016.

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• One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.

  Robert Bly

  Children, Rap, Men

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• The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Respect, Squares, Justice

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• The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.

  William O. Douglas

  Wall, Rights, Law

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• We have got to do a better job recognizing and correcting the errors in the system that do reflect an institutional bias in criminal justice, but what Donald Trump and I are saying is let's not have the reflex of assuming the worst of men and women in law enforcement.

  Mike Pence

  Jobs, Men, Errors

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Over the last few years a lot of people have become aware of the inequities in the criminal justice system, right now, with our overall crime rate and incarceration rate both falling, we're at a moment when some good people in both parties, Republicans and Democrats and folks all across the country, are coming up with ideas to make the system work smarter and better.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Party, Fall

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• I've laid out a platform that I think would begin to remedy some of the problems we have in the criminal justice system.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Justice, Criminals

  "Clinton And Trump Clash In Tense First Presidential Debate". www.npr.org. September 26, 2016.

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• One in three young African American men is currently under the control of the criminal justice system in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole - yet mass incarceration tends to be categorized as a criminal justice issue as opposed to a racial justice or civil rights issue (or crisis).

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Rights, Jail

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• All we want is justice for John Crawford and everyone responsible for John Crawford's death should be held responsible, the criminal justice system refused to hold those accountable so the civil system must.

  Michael Wright

  Justice, Criminals, Want

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• A symptomatic example of the way in which violence has saturated everyday life can be seen in the increased acceptance of criminalizing the behavior of young people in public schools. Behaviors that were normally handled by teachers, guidance counselors and school administrators are now dealt with by the police and the criminal justice system.

  Henry Giroux

  Teacher, School, Acceptance

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a tight circle around the black community to define the limits of my moral concern. But that narrative tends to get imposed on you, if you're an African-American activist.

  Van Jones

  Circles, People, Justice

  Source: aalbc.com

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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 United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

  Roger Waters

  Rights, Justice, Criminals

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• It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

  Edmund Burke

  Drawing, Ideas, People

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.201, Transaction Publishers

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• There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

  Clarence Darrow

  Wisdom, Action, Crime

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.16, University of Chicago Press

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• Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass incarceration a thing of the past.

  Michael K. Williams

  Fighting, Past, People

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• Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of criminal justice. Thoroughly interdisciplinary, he brings to bear on his subject a remarkably wide range of sources. Most striking are his probing interviews with at-risk youths which provide a fascinating and rare glimpse into how they think about guns and gun carrying. This book bristles with insight and information.

  Randall Kennedy

  Book, Thinking, Gun

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• What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time.

  John P. Walters

  Commitment, Views, Law

  "Bush's drugs boss is unfit for office, say civil rights groups" Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag—the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.

  David Levering Lewis

  Reading, Ideas, Color

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