Quotes About The American Justice System

#1. My own family basically did what the American justice system does: I was given more lenient treatment than the black kids.

Trevor Noah

#2. Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

Tommy Chong

#3. You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#4. My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Marcus Aurelius

#6. If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.

Mason Cooley

#7. As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

Janet Fitch

#8. Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.

John Garamendi

#9. Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people.

Paul Gillmor

#10. After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag - the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.

David Levering Lewis

#11. I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

Sam Sheppard

#12. American citizens should not lose their constitutional rights because they lack the money to pay for them.

Bernard B. Kerik

#13. When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.

Thomas Jones

#14. There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one.

David Rabe

#15. You think you're going to impress an American jury with [your] words? In the eyes of the Americans, you're doomed. Just looking at you in an orange suit, chains, and being Muslim and Arabic is enough to convict you.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#16. Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#17. Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.

Gale Norton

#18. The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

Ernest Istook

#19. Horizontal expansion loses the depth, though excessive depth that only provokes darkness is futile. Therefore a balance between depth and vastness is essential in learning

Priyavrat Thareja

#20. You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.

Lee Iacocca

#21. At the heart of the American paradigm is the perception that law and its agents . . . police officers, correctional officers, attorneys and judges . . . are color-blind and thus justice is impartial, objective and seeks la verdad (the truth). But, la realidad (reality) differs.

Martin Guevara Urbina

#22. Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

Larry Elder

#23. Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African-American kids are unemployed, it is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system.

Bernie Sanders

#24. One in three young African American men is currently under the control of the criminal justice system - in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole - yet mass incarceration tends to be categorized as a criminal justice issue as opposed to a racial justice or civil rights issue (or crisis)

Michelle Alexander

#25. Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety.

Jan C. Ting

#26. It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.

Ibn Ata Allah