Erwin Chemerinsky quotes

Erwin Chemerinsky quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The Board of Inquiry report fails to recognize that the central problem in the Los Angeles Police Department is the culture. The reality is there will not be meaningful reform in the Los Angeles Police Department until the culture is changed.”
-- Erwin Chemerinsky

Source : "Report faults LAPD culture for corruption", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2000.

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“Chief Justice Roberts has expressly said that the Constitution and the government should be colorblind, he sees no difference between government action that discriminates against minorities and one that benefits minorities.”
-- Erwin Chemerinsky

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“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
“Freedom of speech implies the world isnâ€™t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.”
“The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.9, Da Capo Press
“We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.”
“Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert. Chapter "Is It a Free Country?", 1935.
“I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops. I would have gone to the authorities, the FBI, the police, the Democratic (Party) anybody that would listen. I wouldn't depend on one guy with the Department of Transportation.”
“POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.”

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