Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes

Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.

In Mexico, the people who are put in jail are all the wrong people. The good people are in jail.

Woe unto them ... who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

There's no question but that the justice system sucks.

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

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

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

Unprincipled men inflict injuries on others, because the laws are practically not valid against all classes. A transgressor who belongs to the wealthy classes is not punished for his injustice, while a poor man, who does not understand business, undergoes the legal penalty, that is if he does not depart this life before the trial, so long is the course of lawsuits protracted, and so much money is expended on them. The climax of the misery is to have to pay in order to obtain justice. For no one will give a court to the injured man unless he pay a sum of money to the judge and the judge's clerks

I don’t think its right to have a criminal justice system that puts innocent people to death.

I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.

It's clear that the laws intended to allow victims to have their cases heard - including our civil rights laws, our criminal laws and our civil justice laws - too often have the opposite effect. These laws are clearly rooted in a false assumption that those in power can do no wrong.

... the keynote of government is injustice.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

You go to traffic court in many locations throughout the country, and you can spell justice - J-U-S-T dash U-S. Just us.

There are bad people in all walks of life, including police.

The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

This is America, but the way that the people of Flint are being treated with this water crisis is like a third-world country.

People feel like city government is corrupt. They feel like it doesn't work unless you have clout.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

I had to grow up in prison for something I did not do.

Police are supposed to protect and serve, but sadly, they protect their self-interest first and foremost.