Angela Davis Quotes About Police

Quotes about: Police

• 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.

  Angela Davis

  Ku Klux Klan, Police Violence, Justice

  "Angela Davis: 'There is an unbroken line of police violence in the US that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2014.

• Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.

  Angela Davis

  Reading, Leader, Police

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

• 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.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Police Violence, Community

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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