“But the elected officials who matter most in reforming police departments and the criminal justice system work at the state and local levels.”— Barack Obama, Medium, medium.com
“Reform needs a politician.”— Anthony McCarten, Jorge Bergoglio/Pope Francis, Jonathan Pryce, imdb.com
“There is obviously a powerful tradition of reform and a progressive voice that is also religious, of which the greatest modern example is the civil rights movement. But it is the case that I think a sort of estrangement between religion and the political left is maybe starting to turn the other way.…”— Pete Buttigieg, thehill.com
“Scott Lang: My days of breaking into places and stealing shit are over! What do you need me to do? Hank Pym: I want you to break into a place and steal some shit. Scott Lang: Makes sense.”— Joe Cornish, Adam McKay, Edgar Wright, Paul Rudd, Scott Lang / Ant-Man, Paul Rudd, imdb.com
“I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform other people who try to reform me. and I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill ’em.”— Carl Panzram, amazon.com
“You can't start a reform movement with a corrupt foundation.”— Jessica Goldberg, Cal Roberts, Hugh Dancy, imdb.com
“"Capital-punishment states are the worst animal states and the worst for the handicapped.” All this makes Temple passionately angry, and passionately concerned for humane reform: she wants to reform the treatment of the handicapped, especially the autistic, as she wants to reform the treatment of ca…”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“I spent my twenties in a drug-infested den of crime and inequity: Yale University. I saw more drugs being done in more ways, off of more surfaces, by more kinds of people than I ever saw in any black community. Well, the cops never kicked in the doors. The police never showed up.”— Van Jones, teamcoco.com
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”— Angela Davis, amazon.com
“We have three branches of government, but the trunk of that tree is rotting away.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com