Police Violence quotes
12 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice."
"If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again."
"We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence."
"I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence."
"There is a problem here in America when it comes to police violence and gun violence, that I believe is being ignored by not giving the proper resources to communities."
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