Justice System Quotes - Page 2

• The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

  Ralph Nader

  Justice, Criminals, Failing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the justice system, we say there must be open justice where there is to be justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried before the public.

  Julian Assange

  Justice, Trying, Judged

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.

  Leonard Peltier

  Jail, People, Justice

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• There's something almost impossible about the criminal justice system when it comes to sexual assault cases. It immediately sets up a trial, where witnesses may have been drunk or maybe there were no witnesses and maybe there's no evidence.

  Jon Shenk

  Justice, Drunk, Trials

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I have a lot of faith in justice systems around the world even though there were cases in the past where that faith wasn't justified in some countries.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Country, Past, Justice

  Source: autoweek.com

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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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• The U.S. doesn't recognize the laws of Cuba. They can kidnap anybody and bring them back to the States to face the so-called justice system. There's no telling what the U.S. government will do to me. I'm in constant danger; I guess I've gotten used to it.

  Assata Shakur

  Law, Government, Justice

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• The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail.

  Rashida Jones

  Mean, Jail, Justice

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• Texans for Public Justice, an anti-corruption group based in Texas applauded the indictment. No jury can undo the outcome of Texas 2002 elections, ... but the justice system must punish those who criminally conspire to undermine democracy no matter how powerful they may be. If we are to be a democracy, then powerful politicians cannot flout such laws with impunity.

  Craig McDonald

  Powerful, Texas, Law

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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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• 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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• One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.

  Eric Schlosser

  Grief, Reality, Murder Victims

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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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• There's no way you are going to get rid of the Second Amendment, there's no way you're going to get rid of the First Amendment, and people have to understand how important this is. But I think when they see more and more killings, we have to figure out, of course what we are going to do about it. And I don't think the criminal justice system has an answer.

  Chuck Todd

  Thinking, People, Justice

  Source: www.nbcnews.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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• In representing criminal defendants - especially guilty ones - it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense. The courtroom oath - to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth - is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Sports, Government, Law

  "The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort - the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal". Book by Alan Dershowitz, 1982.

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• I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Justice, Judging

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• In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution within the past 10 years where these officers were involved. This is a shameful incident that the public deserves to have addressed in a meaningful and expeditious manner.

  George Gascon

  Meaningful, Past, Order

  "San Francisco prosecutor to probe old cases over racist texts by police". www.reuters.com. March 17, 2015.

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• We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy.

  Iveta Radicova

  Technology, Justice, Innovation

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• We cannot just say law and order. We have to say - we have to come forward with a plan that is going to divert people from the criminal justice system, deal with mandatory minimum sentences, which have put too many people away for too long for doing too little.

  Hillary Clinton

  Order, Law, Long

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

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• People who know the economy is rigged in favor of big money, people who know that our middle class continues to decline and we have to go outside of establishment politics and economics, people who know that we need to reform a broken criminal justice system and we need comprehensive immigration reform.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, People, Broken

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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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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• I think the American justice system has a lot more issues than the European justice system, especially the Scottish justice system. We have a really nice mix of European codified law and the traditional English system of common law, which is what the American system is based on.

  Gerard Butler

  Nice, Thinking, Law

  Source: ca.askmen.com

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• I think some parts of the American justice system have gone haywire.

  Gerard Butler

  Thinking, Justice, Gone

  Source: ca.askmen.com

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• Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

  Nancy Grace

  Thinking, People, Justice

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