Quotes About Justice

After my conviction, I was devastated. I had never believed that I would be convicted.

I want to be there for all those who are left behind in this world, whether it's because they are born poor, born a woman, or born in an area affected by devastation.

You don't present a show like 'Crimewatch' without developing a real respect for the justice system in this country.

It's one thing to be called certain things in the media, and then it's another thing to be sitting in a courtroom, fighting for your life while people are calling you a devil.

When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

Racism exists, but what I want to do is start a dialogue.

I suppose anyone who calls a dictator a dictator is 'dangerous' and 'imbalanced.'

My duty is to call for free elections because there is an abuse of power, and we live in a dictatorship.

My son died for lies.

A man is just as dead if he dies of malnutrition as of bullets.

A man who dies, no matter how terrible his crime was, must be brought to burial.

I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

Government cannot ensure equal results because every individual differs.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Different cultures have different predilections for different kinds of crime.

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.

I watched the Sandra Bland documentary and her tape itself over and over and over and over again, and just the reality of that, the fear in that.

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

Once you're a felon you're a target.

I will not walk away from the people and communities whom I love deeply. I will continue to raise my voice for justice and equality for all, organize communities who want to defend the rights of black people, stand against policies that target and marginalize Muslims, and advocate for health care for all people.

I was a target. There was a guy who took a paint roller extension pole and blasted me in the knee a few times. I had to have surgery to relieve the pain when I got out of prison.

After his success in the Tour of Italy and Tour de France in the same year, Pantani certainly made mistakes - but he was targeted by Italian justice who never let him go. I believe it was that that destroyed him.

Trump's pardon of Arpaio may not get as much attention as Russian influence or Trump's apparent obstruction of justice in the Mueller investigation. But to me, as a woman of color, it is a clear abuse of power for the U.S. president to pardon a sheriff who targeted people for arrest because of their ethnicity.