"Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do."
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"I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or, in this case, guardians of my peace."
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"We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes."
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"Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey."
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"We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do."
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"To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and to defeat the operation of the 10th Amendment, declaring that 'the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
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"Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers."
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"The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public."
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"We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations."
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"The truth of the matter is that the problem of police shootings and reactions in the community."
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"Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and influence and can hire lobbyists, but for the nurse, the teacher, the police officer, who, frankly, at the end of each month, they've got a little financial crisis going on. They're having to take out extra debt just to make their mortgage payments. We haven't been paying attention to them. And if you look at our tax policies in America, it's a classic example."
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"Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous."
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"I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour."
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"Every profession has its own culture, but the police look at the world differently to everybody else. I call it a 'healthy culture of suspicion'."
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"Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded."
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"There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering."
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"Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives."
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"The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time."
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"The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies."
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"I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession."
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