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The system’s failure to catch killers effectively made black lives cheap.

— Jill Leovy, Ghettoside

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Like the schoolyard bully, our criminal justice system harasses people on small pretexts but is exposed as a coward before murder.

— Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

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Let's speak the truth that too many unarmed black men and women are killed in America. Too many black and brown Americans are locked up. From mass incarceration to cash bail to policing, our criminal justice system needs drastic repair.

— Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris officially launches 2020 presidential campaign

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I knew our criminal justice system was deeply flawed. I knew that the people in our society who are most often targeted by predators are also most often the voiceless and vulnerable. And I believed then as I do now, that no one should be left to fight alone.

— Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris officially launches 2020 presidential campaign

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Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problems: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.’

— Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy)

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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

— Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

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