Emily Thornberry Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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 don't know what it's like to get to face down my attacker in court, but I do know that they lie.

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.

Back in 2003, when I was home secretary, I introduced the victim surcharge on offenders to substantially expand the support available and, I hoped, the protection of witnesses who were brave enough to come forward.

I always want to give the victim a voice.

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

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.

Our laws must protect victims.

Victims want to know that the true perpetrators of their crime are convicted - legal aid helps achieve this.

I pray that people will stand by women who have been violated and victimized.

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.

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.

If you go into a police station and report a burglary the first question is not: 'Are you telling the truth?' If you are the victim of a sexual offence, very often in the past that has been the first question.

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.

If a woman comes out saying she has been abused or assaulted, we should not start finding flaws in her character or try to dig up her past for murky details.

I'm not asking victims to change their behavior. I'm asking perpetrators not to commit crimes.

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.

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

When you have a child victim, I don't think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.