Chen Guangcheng Quotes

There are reasons to doubt that our criminal justice system is fundamentally just.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

The state should not be allowed to make repeated attempts to convict an individual.

... a lynching of the Constitution.

The continued retention of these innocent people would he a blot upon the history of this country.

Every kind and degree of evil of which mankind are susceptible may be inflicted on them by their government.

The Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible to prove race discrimination in the criminal justice system.

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

After I got arrested the Filipino government unshackled me. I knew first-hand how they violated my rights and I could speak about that from experience.

My perception has changed from thinking if someone's in jail they're supposed to be, to there's a lot of factors that's not that simple.

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated.

May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.

Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.