Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Quotes

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up.

I was the law and order.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

The man who was excellent, I rewarded him well; who was evil, I punished him well.

What is crime among the multitude is only vice among the few.

Today there's law and order in everything. You can't beat anybody for nothing. If you do beat anyone, it's got to be for the sake of order.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

If any man err from the right way, it is his own misfortune, no injury to thee; nor therefore art thou to punish him in the things of this life because thou supposest he will be miserable in that which is to come.

Negro children are still sent to prison with adult criminals, and that they leave it half devil and half beast.

For 40 years we have been looking for ways to make the existence of the narcotic drug addict just as tough as possible. For 40 years we have asked only what new penalties, what new police tech-niques, might make it easier to catch him and lock him up, whether as an ordinary criminal or, more recently, in connection with some more or less sincere efforts at rehabilitation in confinement. I believe that this entire approach is open to grave question as a practical matter

For the security of particular men, and, by consequence for the common peace, it is necessary that the right of using the Sword for punishment, be transferred to some Man or Counsel, that Man or Counsel is necessarily understood by Right to have the supreme Power in the City.

The innocent are frequently punished instead of the guilty

The time for the State to protect himself against the criminal is before the criminal is made. Most criminals are not born, they are made.... What a State really punishes in a criminal is its own neglect, it's own failure to do its duty to the citizens.

Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

We will not give immunity to any terrorist anywhere.

The war on drugs is a war on our own families …. We have to move from a system that punishes to a system that treats.

We must delegate control of the population as a whole to specialists—to police, priests, teachers, therapies, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies

I quickly learned that teaching students was far more complicated than managing adults. Why, you may ask? Here are three simple reasons: Your employees are paid to listen to you, students are not. In business, employees are selected based upon a search and interview process. Teachers do not select their students. In business, an insubordinate employee is fired. An insubordinate student is merely one more challenge for a classroom teacher.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.