Quotes About Justice

For police officers who commit this violence, there has been no accountability. Cops are supposed to be held to a standard of conduct, but they always get the benefit of the doubt, inherently. They act like we ain't supposed to question nothing.

God, I've played a lot of policeman.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

The formerly incarcerated - returning citizens - often face a cruel irony in America. Having paid their debt to society, too many are banned from the ballot box that could help them dismantle policies that essentially extend their sentences.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.

There have to be consequences for police who take the law into their own hands. There has to be a shift in the use-of-force policies that are used in departments across the country.

Equity and economic justice are now hardwired into all of our climate policies.

Invest more in policing, not less.

My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

There's more we can do as a community to try to change what policing looks like in our cities.

American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing.

Race is something that's always haunted American policing.

Through Black Lives Matter and social media, we've been able to have a really challenging discussion with America about police and how much it is investing in policing.

I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.

We need to have something that is reworked, that deals with immigration, that is not thinking in terms of policing.

I know there are those in the community who, rather than have us invest more in policing, even for community policing, instead want us to disinvest in the police department. We need a police department. We are going to have a police department.

If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.

The police should be focused on policing criminal activity, and that's sort of the beginning, the middle and the end of it for me.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

We have not let injustice to be done to anyone. We have been following the policy of 'justice to all, appeasement of none.'

I disagree with any policy that would turn America's back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.