Truman Capote Quotes

I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.

The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

As a lawyer, I've dealt with really serious offences, and the public rarely hear what the true impact is on the victims' families. When you hear it from the mouths of victims, your entire approach changes, because it could happen to anybody, and they articulate that in such a powerful way.

I've been really consistent throughout the campaign and since I won that I want to prioritize victims rights and I want to prioritize healing.

The FBI has a very clear policy. They don't expose victims.

We need to stand together with all of the victims [ of sexual harassment] and make sure they are not silenced.

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

Victims have a right to be heard and be involved in the process … Traditional Navajo law gives them the right to be made whole.

I think that many people are the victims of abuse every single day and can't stand up for themselves. People need to be able to understand that we need to stand united and that abuse should not be happening anymore.

One of my priorities is giving victims the right to choose different paths to restoration and to healing. It's prioritizing having restitution available for economic harm, having victim services for the trauma and also recognizing that victims are far more than simply pieces of evidence to be used in order to secure a lengthy prison sentence.

There will be occasions when someone has suffered a crime where it is either obvious that they are not looking for an investigation or that there are no investigative opportunities and you just have to be up front about that.

We need society, and particularly the victims of crime, to believe justice is being done.

I want to give every victim of every crime in San Francisco the right to participate in restorative justice if they choose to.

The Human Rights Act has not just given a voice to victims, but to the families who have to fight for the victim where the victim has died.

There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue - those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS - but they remain strangely silent.

The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.

I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it. I don't think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims.

In the law, you have people whose lives have changed because some dirtbag decided to do something to them. We should call it the criminal injustice system. The victim didn't choose to be a victim.

For far too long, victims' rights have been discussed only in the context of sentencing. Sentencing is very important, but the debate obscures something much more fundamental: most victims have so little faith in our criminal justice system that they do not access it at all.

Working on domestic violence cases was an eye-opening experience that made me passionate to do everything possible to support and protect victims and prosecute abusers.

We need to have a system whereby, when a victim walks into a police station, she can be confident that she will be believed and that every effort will be made find evidence to support her in court.

Different victims, different survivors of different crimes will choose to pursue different paths. And hopefully, over time, we can collectively transform our culture into one that prioritizes healing and prevention instead of simply focusing on punishment.

All victims deserve justice.