Lori Lightfoot Quotes

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

People who are wealthy tend to be treated much more fairly in our criminal justice system.

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than our humblest citizen, so that we can end the double standard of justice in America.

Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.

We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law?s treatment.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!

Impunity for the great thief, and jail for the thief who steals a loaf.

The spirit, the intent, the purpose of our Constitution is to secure equal and exact justice for all men.

Our criminal justice system was designed to be fair and is the fairest system known to man.

The law courts of England are open to all men, like the doors of the Ritz Hotel.

Laws are to govern all alike—those opposed as well as those who favor them.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

We contend that in all laws made, or to be made, every person shall be bound alike—neither should any tenure, estate, charter, degree, birth or place, confer any exemption from the ordinary course of legal proceedings and responsibilities whereunto others are subjected.

Every person within this jurisdiction, whether inhabitant or foreigner, shall enjoy the same justice and law that is general for the plantation, which we constitute and execute one toward another without partiality or delay.

I don’t think the pardon power should only be available to the people who are prominent and well connected…. It should be available to people in trailer parks also.

To talk about justice in the justice system is an oxymoron.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

No one can be immune from our laws; everyone must be held to account.