Ta-Nehisi Coates
Related He has zero criminal record. This is his first interaction with the criminal justice system. ADAM BERNSTEIN Most people imagine that the explosion in the U.S. prison population during the past twenty-five yea... MICHELLE ALEXANDER HENRY LOUIS GATES Look, people need to conform the external reality they face daily with this subjective feeling they ... SERGIO DE LA PAVA This is about whether the criminal justice system has any role in the war on terror. JULIETTE KAYYEM SALLY YATES Cameras in the courtroom will change what we have had for centuries and what the people of this coun... CATHERINE CRIER It is a long and somewhat tedious process, but it is of utmost importance... to the criminal justice... LEONARD SAND The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws. BEN WHISHAW CALVIN JOHNSON At least the attorneys got the name of their system right when they called it the Criminal Justice S... BOBBY W. MILLER This is the second significant error by the government affecting the constitutional rights of the de... LEONIE BRINKEMA There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the na... MONTESQUIEU As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is... KELLY AYOTTE SUSANA MARTINEZ This shows we have faith in the American justice system. This has shown that America is not only the... AHMED BEDIER This isn't about hatred. This isn't about racism. We stand against a broken system that has failed a... TIM DONNELLY ELIOT SPITZER The president also wants to make sure that our legal justice system, our criminal system is working,... ANDI MALLARANGENG They're our smallest victims. You have to prepare them for dealing with the criminal justice system,... AMA DWIMOH TOM PRICE The New Jersey procedure challenged in this case is an unacceptable departure from the jury traditio... JOHN PAUL STEVENS To my knowledge, it has never been this high. Frankly, the way cases move through the criminal justi... HARRY SHORSTEIN This case started in an unusual way, but I'm happy today it's in a criminal court proceeding. Mr. Pa... ANDREW PATEL STEVE EARLE TREVOR NOAH It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice sy... WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR. BOB COUSY ANGELA MERKEL The criminal justice system is often perceived as remote and unresponsive. Research shows local, vis... BEN ROGERS You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. BOBBY SEALE It is being blind to history not to recognize that the criminal justice system has been trained on t... JAMIN RASKIN I feel sorry for Anwar, but I feel even sorrier for the country. I feel sad for the system of justic... CHANDRA MUZAFFAR The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabili... BLAKE FARENTHOLD The cultural shift that it is acceptable to tell people not to come to court to testify imperils the... LYNNE ABRAHAM Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They... FLORYNCE KENNEDY The rule of law has continued to prevail over the emotion of the moment, the cornerstone attribute o... LOUIS FREEH BURKE MARSHALL ERNEST ISTOOK BOB BECKEL KAMALA HARRIS TREY GOWDY RAND PAUL HENRY LOUIS GATES We're very hopeful that the court will uphold this act of Congress and agree that there is some flex... PAUL CASSELL CORY BOOKER This is one of the most extraordinary cases in the annals of criminal justice in our town. BARRY SCHECK Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the ... WILLIAM SILVERMAN This is a prank where no harm was intended or caused. This should be handled administratively and no... BRYAN WILLIAMS MICHAEL FRANTI JOHN CORNYN BERNARD CORNWELL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES ANNA DEAVERE SMITH MARK WAID The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of t... JONATHAN LARSEN Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the pr... BARRY SCHECK Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the pr... BARRY SCHECK I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the Ame... SAM SHEPPARD It underscores the notion that we've rid Jim Crow of much of our society. But Jim Crow still lives i... HUGH PRICE It underscores the notion that we've rid Jim Crow of much of our society, ... But Jim Crow still liv... HUGH PRICE JANE ELLIOT ROBERT P. MCCULLOCH Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our ... JAN C. TING The judicial discretion has been fettered greatly by the Youth Criminal Justice Act. GARY HOLT It?s a very quiet story. People certainly don?t know the history of racism here. JEFF BARNES Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people hav... MARIO BALOTELLI To anyone who thinks systematic racism does not exist you're perhaps the most dangerous. THEE AMAZING GRACE BARBARA BOXER TIM WISE You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. BOBBY SEALE You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. BOBBY SEALE We have always been called racist, but it has nothing to do with racism. This is a national security... CARMEN MERCER BARACK OBAMA I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I ex... CARRIE MAE WEEMS ELLIOT PAUL There are alternatives to the criminal justice approach to drug policy in Kansas. The public health ... LAURA GREEN HUEY NEWTON STOKELY CARMICHAEL There is a flip side to it too. CBI's role is confined to investigation and it has a limited role du... VIJAY SHANKAR We are trying to expand the focus this year. It has previously primarily been focused on homicides. ... KAY TVAROCH Racism is sin itself.
Trump didn't cause the racism in men's hearts, sin did.
You have people statin... NORM TOMLINSON HOWARD ZINN I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write... MICHAEL CONNELLY I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I w... MATT GONZALEZ Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal ju... BILL SCOTT An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people. DASHANNE STOKES We've come a very, very long way, a long way to breaking down the barriers of racism. DANA COFFEY Death Penalty' in rarest of rare cases, should adorn criminal justice system in India,which would op... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN -SENIOR LEGAL CONSULTANT & AUTHOR IN LAW. (B.COM,LLB-GOLDMEDALIST, LLM-GOLDM SUSANA MARTINEZ racism and equality has only been painted on, it hasn't been erase. ROSA M. BETANCES The mainstream media choose to flaunt story lines that make white America appear guilty of continued... ANDREW BREITBART LORETTA LYNCH MINDY KALING RAND PAUL There's nothing in this country that is a worse accusation - in America, if you accuse somebody ... ANDREW BREITBART SUNDAY ADELAJA TYSON FURY BOB BECKEL When you do community building, you fight for social justice and human rights in schools and jobs an... FRANCES PRATT
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I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justi... 
It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We... 
We have experienced, for the first time in this country, a nuclear winter, ... This justice system h... 
Experience has taught me that privacy truly is the touchstone of our criminal justice system. 
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It i... 
Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system. 
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as ... 
In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as... 
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this c... 
Hatred, racism, and extremism have no place in this country. 
It's very discouraging to know that in the criminal justice system the people in control don't have ... 
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric ... 
We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but raci... 
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal j... 
The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or ... 
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. J... 
I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across... 
Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the peo... 
Chief Justice Rehnquist restored sanity to our criminal justice system, respect for our nation's all... 
The law. we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch 
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedat... 
Right now, I've got the weight of several worlds on my shoulders. My best friend is living in a canc... 
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. 
All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evide... 
We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environme... 
The denial of racism is a form of racism itself. 
We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more ... 
Racism is the most serious problem facing football today. This declaration is a solid foundation to ... 
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. 
Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they... 
I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothi... 
The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all cri... 
Almost one in three Americans has had some contact with the criminal justice system. When you reach ... 
The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatize... 
What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I... 
You can be a black man in the country noted for its rampant racism 
Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven&#... 
I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a ... 
I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivation... 
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The best, the most exquisite automobile is a walking stick; and one of the finest things in life is ...