Quotes About Justice

We shouldn't try to turn policemen into social workers, but they should at least understand that not all offenders belong in jail.

We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.

What I do now, when I'm taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness of the pay. I ask what they're offering me in comparison to the guy. I don't care about how much I get paid; I'm in an industry where we're overcompensated for the work we do.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

As the state's chief law enforcement officer, it's my job to see that perpetrators of fraud are brought to justice.

Dan Donovan was the district attorney at one point who could not indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, who choked Eric Garner on video, for the whole country to watch, for the whole world to watch. And he actually, immediately after that, won a seat in Congress. He beat a Democrat to get into Congress.

I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

Do I acknowledge that there are some law enforcement officers that abuse their job? Yes.

Some officers do so much to try and get at you.

I think the more we see more officers holding each other accountable, the more we will see people trust cops in this country.

I think it is likely that within every department there are some officers who subtly, if not otherwise, are biased in the way they go about enforcing the law. I think that is just life. We know that to be true.

But in fact it makes a lot of sense to have a Blue Lives Matter movement because officers are putting their lives on the line every day.

We need to support our law enforcement officers any way we can.

What happened to George Floyd is an abomination. Four Minneapolis policemen used excessive force to cause his death in what appears to be a tragically cavalier fashion. All four officers involved should be held fully accountable and incarcerated for their crimes.

Fighting crime and bringing criminals to justice takes more than law enforcement officers alone.

We continue to confront racism from our past and our present, which is why we must hold everyone, from the highest offices to our own families, accountable for racist words and deeds and call racism what it is - wrong.

As an elected official, an advocate for children, and an educator, Glenn Poshard has always fought for what's right.

I think that there are real concerns that we have around whose life is important and why. So if the official story is, for example, somebody was running from the police, does their life matter?

As we officially make Juneteenth a federal holiday, we continue our fight for true liberation.

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.

Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men.

Our nation is grounded on the rule of law, and the public must be assured that government officials administer the law fairly.

Don't engage with corrupt officials under any circumstances. The results are always bad.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.