America Quote by Bobby Seale

I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven…

— Richard Helms

Black and brown people in communities like mine, when arrested are more likely to be convicted and receive harsher sentences than our white counterparts.…

— Cori Bush

“The Supreme Court has now closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the criminal justice process, from stops…

— Michelle Alexander

My vehemence was against the federal courts. I never said a word against black people in my heart since I ran for governor.

— George Wallace

Well, being a black man in America and growing up in this society, my view of the justice system is pretty much set. I've…

— Rob Morgan

I can tell you as a black person in South Carolina whose grandparents grew up through Jim Crow, when you lose the courts and…

— Jaime Harrison

We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in prison now…

— Jimmy Carter

“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”

— Piper Kerman

“The impact of the new caste system is most tragically felt among the young. In Chicago (as in other cities across the United States),…

— Michelle Alexander

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

— Amiri Baraka

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

— Michelle Alexander

I think it's a complete injustice, the way it's (the trial) being done

— Dionne Warwick