A Quote by Kamala Harris

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It's not academic for me.

Kamala Harris

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Kamala Harris
American - President
Born: October 20, 1964

I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.

Kamala Harris

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

Ben Whishaw

Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African American kids are unemployed. It is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system.

Bernie Sanders

Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.

J. B. Pritzker

I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me.

Jesse Williams

Any kind of run-of-the-mill flaws that are easily solved, to me, are boring. Situational flaws, for example. I like flaws that are rooted in a deep distrust in people because of a lack of love.

Will Arnett

The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.

Michelle Alexander

My mother was not without her flaws. She did have a lot of flaws, but she revealed her strength and her flaws equally, and I think that's really important. I was very much influenced by that.

Nina Tassler

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don't have any flaws.

Kevin Gates

The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.

Randall Robinson

Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.

Henry Miller

If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey.

Cory Booker

It's been crazy to not only learn about the criminal justice system, but to see how it starts so young.

Jason McCourty

What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.