Crime Quotes
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The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
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In the case of a man and a woman accused of committing a crime together, both will often agree to the man taking the rap-despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that ‘learned subservience.’
Warren Farrell
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When private property is abolished there will be no necessity for crime, no demand for it; it will cease to exist.
Oscar Wilde
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Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo
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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
Ida B. Wells
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I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.
Albert Einstein
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
Vicki Delany
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We also have a lot of people who are not Dutch, and who are in Holland as a guest, whether they are asylum seekers or others. I believe if you commit a crime you overstay your welcome, if we could extradite you.
Geert Wilders
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
Rand Paul
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
Kamala Harris
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I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
Vivienne Westwood
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The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.
Val McDermid
