Police Brutality Quotes

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• You were put here to protect us.
  But who protects us from you?

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, African American

  Song: Who Protects Us from You?, Album: Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop (BDP)

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• There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Police, Brutality, Needs

  Source: ninerswire.usatoday.com

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• We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

  Al Sharpton

  Police, Brutality

  "NYC Police Investigating Shooting Death by Police of Groom on His Wedding Day". www.foxnews.com. November 25, 2006.

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• An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

  Benjamin Crump

  Innocent Person, People, Police

  "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation With Civil Rights Attorney BBenjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, www.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.

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• Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Stars, Hate

  "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?". Book by Martin Luther King, 1967.

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• Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Mean, Justice, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

  Tupac Shakur

  Family, Home, Winning

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Hate, Light

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

  Malcolm X

  Police Violence, Hands, Ifs

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• The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that is about more than police brutality. This is especially clear in the United States, given its transformation from a social state to a warfare state, from a state that once embraced a semblance of the social contract to one that no longer has a language for justice, community and solidarity - a state in which the bonds of fear and commodification have replaced the bonds of civic responsibility and democratic vision.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, People, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is police brutality. People of color have been targeted by police.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Color, People, Police

  Source: ninerswire.usatoday.com

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• It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were "them" and we were "us".

  Will Smith

  Struggle, Voice, Philadelphia

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras since Eric Garner IS on tape?

  Bill Maher

  Cameras, Eric, Tape

  Twitter post from Dec 04, 2014

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• I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

  Rodney King

  Children, Healing, Police

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.

  Ralph Nader

  Justice, Support, Police

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

  Quentin Tarantino

  People, Sick, Police

  "Q&A: Tarantino on the battles behind 'The Hateful Eight'". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 22, 2015.

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• Violence, with its ever-present economy of uncertainty, fear, and terror, is no longer merely a side effect of police brutality, war, or criminal behavior. It has become fundamental to neoliberalism as a particularly savage facet of capitalism. And in doing so it has turned out to be central to legitimating those social relations in which the political and pedagogical are redefined in order to undercut possibilities for authentic democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Political, Police

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Cells, Wind, Creative

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical' terms and things like that.....there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let's learn volleyball.

  Tupac Shakur

  Volleyball, Religious, Sex

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• There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

  Howard Zinn

  Military, Color, People

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.687, Routledge

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• You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offense that they've ever done, thus creating a mistrust in the community. But at the same time, you should be able to talk about abuses of power, and you should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases, is as far as I'm concerned, outright murder and outright loss of justice without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  Source: collider.com

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• What I'm trying to tell people is that police brutality in the 'hood is nothing new. And the thing is that whether this guy, the cop killer in my song, is real or not, believe it, there are people at that point.

  Ice T

  Song, Real, Believe

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I dont want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just dont know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

  Ariel Pink

  Country, Bully, Police

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• I think we waste a lot of time trying to convince other people that we're right. A lot of times we don't actually care what another person thinks, we just want to say what we think. To hear it reflected back to us and that we're okay, to hear that we have been understood and that we're correct - so that we can continue to be who we are in the ways we've been being, and we have nothing to feel bad about and everything is just fine. Even if what we're talking about is, like, police brutality.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Thinking, People, Police

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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