Quotes About Justice

If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey.

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Excessive stop-and-frisk divides communities. That's why the New York City Police Department has moved away from it.

Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.

As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights lawyer, because people fought for my housing rights, I was going to pay it forward by fighting for others.

I don't have to prove my innocence to the court or to the news media.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

We have to have a planet to pass on to the next generation, and these issues of climate change and climate justice and the disproportionate burdens that communities of color actually bear from our damaging climate is a huge issue.

I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for black immigrants and African Americans. Being the daughter of Nigerian immigrants really drove me to do this type of work.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

Good lawyers win so-so lawsuits. Great lawyers can win lawsuits in which you have little or no chance to win.

We've seen unscrupulous legal firms racking up legal aid bills for fabricated accusations. And we've seen attempts by them to pursue cases that stand no chance of a conviction, putting those accused through hell.

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

There is no country in the world with nil crime.

I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.

Oh, I definitely feel that women are equal to men. No doubt about that.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

There's no excuse for breaking the law.

There's no excuse for drink-driving.

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

We loathe mass incarceration. We loathe police brutality. But most of us have absolutely no idea how to address the critical flaws in our justice system.