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- Nov 07, 2020
Criminal Justice Quotes
On fairness, law, and equal treatment.
This page collects criminal justice quotes that grapple with how fairly the system treats different communities, alongside the core legal principle that everyone deserves to be presumed innocent. For related civic themes, see our Justice quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
You look at what animates Democratic voters; you look at what animates Democratic politicians: it's health care. It's increasingly climate. It is wages and economic issues. It's issues around reproductive freedom and criminal justice reform and inequality.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it very frustrating how much passing the buck there is in the criminal justice system when it comes to taking responsibility for outcomes.
- Injustice
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be racism in a system even if a particular episode of injustice is not a manifestation of that racism. Every single thing in the criminal justice system is not a manifestation of racism, but many things are.
- Criminal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went into criminal justice because I want to learn more about the law, about what's going on in this world, and be a mentor to kids from where I'm from.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Advertising
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to UCF in Florida in Orlando. I went for advertising and public relations. I moved out to California my senior year because I knew I wanted to be an actor, but I also wanted to finish school and get my degree. I took mainly a bunch of criminal justice courses online for the last year because that's all that they offered.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need criminal justice reform. You have heard people talk about that all over the country. I was able to work on that specific issue at home.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my priorities is criminal justice reform, and there is certainly bipartisan appetite for that. I think we need to eliminate the cash bail system. We need to eliminate mandatory minimums. We need sentencing reform. I think we need parole reform as well.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020