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Top 15 Jill Leovy Quotes (2025 Update)

Jill Leovy Quote: “Death was bad enough. The death of a child, unbearable. But the murder of a child? There was nothing worse.”

1. “Death was bad enough. The death of a child, unbearable. But the murder of a child? There was nothing worse.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “Fundamentally gangs are a consequence of lawlessness, not a cause.”

2. “Fundamentally gangs are a consequence of lawlessness, not a cause.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “When you see the suffering and pain that it brings, you’d have to be blind, mad, or a coward to resign yourself to the plague. ALBERT CAMUS, The Plague.”

3. “When you see the suffering and pain that it brings, you’d have to be blind, mad, or a coward to resign yourself to the plague. ALBERT CAMUS, The Plague.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “Before anything else, Bryant was black. To Devin Davis, that meant he was killable.”

4. “Before anything else, Bryant was black. To Devin Davis, that meant he was killable.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “This is a book about a very simple idea: where the criminal justice system fails to respond vigorously to violent injury and death, homicide becomes endemic. African Americans have suffered from just such a lack of effective criminal justice, and this, more than anything, is the reason for the nation’s long-standing plague of black homicides.”

5. “This is a book about a very simple idea: where the criminal justice system fails to respond vigorously to violent injury and death, homicide becomes endemic. African Americans have suffered from just such a lack of effective criminal justice, and this, more than anything, is the reason for the nation’s long-standing plague of black homicides.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “White people “had the law,” to quote a curious phrase that crops up in historic sources. Black people didn’t. Formal law impinged on them only for purposes of control, not protection. Small crimes were crushed, big ones indulged – so long as the victims were black.”

6. “White people “had the law,” to quote a curious phrase that crops up in historic sources. Black people didn’t. Formal law impinged on them only for purposes of control, not protection. Small crimes were crushed, big ones indulged – so long as the victims were black.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “If every murder and every serious assault against a black man on the streets were investigated with Skaggs’s ceaseless vigor and determination – investigated as if one’s own child were the victim, or as if we, as a society, could not bear to lose these people – conditions would have been different.”

7. “If every murder and every serious assault against a black man on the streets were investigated with Skaggs’s ceaseless vigor and determination – investigated as if one’s own child were the victim, or as if we, as a society, could not bear to lose these people – conditions would have been different.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “The system’s failure to catch killers effectively made black lives cheap.”

8. “The system’s failure to catch killers effectively made black lives cheap.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “This is a book about a very simple idea: where the criminal justice system fails to respond vigorously to violent injury and death, homicide becomes endemic.”

9. “This is a book about a very simple idea: where the criminal justice system fails to respond vigorously to violent injury and death, homicide becomes endemic.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “She sensed that they expected her to fall apart, but she didn’t know how to fall apart. She knew it was strange. She looked the same despite this massive piece of herself that had gone missing. She acted the same. She went to work, greeted people, went home. Everything normal on the outside, except the occassional muffled crying on the job.”

10. “She sensed that they expected her to fall apart, but she didn’t know how to fall apart. She knew it was strange. She looked the same despite this massive piece of herself that had gone missing. She acted the same. She went to work, greeted people, went home. Everything normal on the outside, except the occassional muffled crying on the job.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “Paul Williams and reflected his deepest values – California living and “a passion for small homes for everyday people” – according to his Memphis archivist, Deborah Brackstone.”

11. “Paul Williams and reflected his deepest values – California living and “a passion for small homes for everyday people” – according to his Memphis archivist, Deborah Brackstone.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “He presented justice as a psychological relief.”

12. “He presented justice as a psychological relief.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “Homicide thrives on intimacy, communal interactions, barter, and a shared sense of private rules. The intimacy part was also why homicide was so stubbornly intraracial. You had to be involved with people to want to kill them.”

13. “Homicide thrives on intimacy, communal interactions, barter, and a shared sense of private rules. The intimacy part was also why homicide was so stubbornly intraracial. You had to be involved with people to want to kill them.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “The hurt was too great for crying – tears belonged to a realm of earthly physics, but the murder of her son had transcended the coordinates of her world.”

14. “The hurt was too great for crying – tears belonged to a realm of earthly physics, but the murder of her son had transcended the coordinates of her world.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “There was something faintly comic about it all, DeeDee found herself thinking as she scrambled around the floor, her grandmother screaming nearby. The next instant, she marveled at life’s paradoxes, the way human nature perceives humor even at the height of disaster... Wally Jr. has a similar insight: he woke up the next morning surprised to find he had slept through the night. He was unfamiliar with the way a breathless, suspended state of shock precedes grief.”

15. “There was something faintly comic about it all, DeeDee found herself thinking as she scrambled around the floor, her grandmother screaming nearby. The next instant, she marveled at life’s paradoxes, the way human nature perceives humor even at the height of disaster... Wally Jr. has a similar insight: he woke up the next morning surprised to find he had slept through the night. He was unfamiliar with the way a breathless, suspended state of shock precedes grief.”

Jill Leovy Quote: “There is a perception that blacks are doing it to blacks, and if I’m white, it doesn’t affect me,” said the white jury foreman. His eyes flashed with sudden anger. “Well, get over it. It does.”

16. “There is a perception that blacks are doing it to blacks, and if I’m white, it doesn’t affect me,” said the white jury foreman. His eyes flashed with sudden anger. “Well, get over it. It does.”

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