Civil rights Quote by Cal Cunningham

As a lawyer, I've dealt with really serious offences, and the public rarely hear what the true impact is on the victims' families. When…

— Robert Rinder

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

— Julian McMahon

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original…

— Edmund Burke

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

— Edmund Burke

Do we still have the right to be more than victims?

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.

— Alan Dershowitz

Victims of crime deserve equal constitutional rights - the same rights as defendants. No more, no less.

— Chris Sununu

For centuries, the courts took the view that preserving the discretion of the authorities trumped the rights of victims to hold them to account.…

— Emily Thornberry

Law and justice are not always the same.

— Gloria Steinem

From a victim's point of view, our justice system is hardly fit for purpose. No doubt individual failings by police and prosecutors provide part…

— Keir Starmer

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

— Thomas Jefferson

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right…

— Edward Snowden