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"All we want is justice for John Crawford and everyone responsible for John Crawford's death should be held responsible, the criminal justice system refused to hold those accountable so the civil system must."
"We are already taking care of people from jail. Hundred and ten non-criminal women are already with us in Shantidhan (abode of peace)."
"The chance of a criminal getting caught, is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning."
"It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue"
"It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal."
"The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals."
"The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay."
"I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes."
"We need to deport these criminals and negotiate agreements requiring that they do their time in their own countries."
"We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes."
"I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit."
"The sovereignty of America has just been eroded in plain daylight by Clinton and the Congress, who take an oath to the Constitution. Those criminals continue to destroy this country and the world itself."
"The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer."
"Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems."
"Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully."
"The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that."
"I’ve got no criminal record."
"Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it."
"It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city."
"The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this. The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem. This is: Change. Read it through again and you'll get it."
