"The civil justice system is a backup..." - Quote by Ralph Nader
The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.
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“This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.”
“We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.”
“Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into poor areas and cities around our country. Like predatory lending and misallocation of municipal services. These guys get municipal service, poor areas don't. So they run the economy into the ground, and who suffers the most? The poor pay more and they die earlier.”
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“I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?”
“So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.”
“Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.”
More on Law
“A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.”
“The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.”
“We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.”