Quotes About Justice

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.

We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.

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.

I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.

As we continue to work to pass comprehensive immigration reform, we must take action to stop these predators who are exploiting immigrants attempting to play by the rules.

We need to hire more black police officers in this country because these are good jobs, and African Americans should have their fair share of good jobs. But we shouldn't do it because we think that's going to change policing. We have to push for police reform in other ways.

Boston's justice system is in serious need of reform. Many of its policies and practices are antiquated, expensive, and don't really even make Boston safer.

In fact, when I first came to the Senate, people laughed. I had people telling me, 'There's no way you're going to get a comprehensive criminal justice reform bill done.'

Prison reform, peace, and a presidential pardon - just a portion of Kushner's portfolio.

Even before the Windrush scandal, it was clear Britain's immigration system was in desperate need of reform.

I was always a reformer. My father and mother were progressives, and they believed in the universal vote, vote for women, land reform, and a lot of things which at one time were not accepted; they're much more accepted now.

In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the federal criminal justice system. I made an announcement in August of that year in San Francisco, when we rolled out the Smart on Crime initiative.

Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

We need transformational change of our criminal justice system - not just, you know, a handful of consent decrees or policy reforms.

We are for pension reform, jobs, the flat tax, and justice reforms.

Unless there is a strong movement of citizens, who are the consumers of justice, we are hardly likely to see any serious judicial reforms in this country.

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

History has not looked kindly on us when we've prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation.

I don't believe that the fight for trans rights or African American rights is different from the fight against war, or the fight for refugees.