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"Crime is naught but misdirected energy"
Emma Goldman, Activist
"There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob"
Herodotus, Historian
"Poverty is not the root cause of crime"
Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer
"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change"
Andre Gide, Novelist
"Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments"
Walter Benjamin, Critic
"Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man"
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman
"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures"
Potter Stewart, Judge
"I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable"
Tupac Shakur, Musician
"I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit"
Tupac Shakur, Musician
"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means, to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal, would bring terrible retribution"
Louis D. Brandeis, Judge
"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive"
Roland Barthes, Critic
"Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns"
Louis XIV, Royalty
"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution"
Ulysses S. Grant, President
"When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest"
Elie Wiesel, Novelist
"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless"
James Baldwin, Educator
"Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak"
Walter Lippmann, Journalist
"Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself"
Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader
"Justice is incidental to law and order"
J. Edgar Hoover, Public Servant
"We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody"
J. Edgar Hoover, Public Servant
"To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life"
Edwin Markham, Poet
"In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect"
Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author
"As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country"
William Howard Taft, President
"Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law"
William Howard Taft, President
"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street, it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard"
John Powell, Composer
"The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it"
Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist
"Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court"
Michael Jackson, Musician
"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world"
Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian
"I hear that Brooke Ashley is also pressing charges. I don't know how she can prove anything. How can they prove anything, whether it's true or not, that I'm the one that infected her?"
Marc Wallice, Actor
"Often the masses are plundered and do not know it"
Frederic Bastiat, Economist
"It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us"
Erykah Badu, Musician
"Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements"
Agnes Repplier, Writer
"And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words"
Ulrich Beck, Sociologist
"I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences"
Peter Tosh, Musician
"Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money"
Bobby Scott, Politician
"Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system"
Stokely Carmichael, Activist
"Confess and be hanged"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
"Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"
Lillian Hellman, Dramatist
"The humble are in danger when those in power disagree"
Phaedrus, Poet
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