America hasn't been able to grapple with the uncomfortable reality that police brutality is encoded in this country's DNA. — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
The more I'm educated on things like the Black Lives Matter movement, police brutality, and things that I feel passionate about, I… — Latto Copy Share Image
We want any officer of the law, who has taken part in excessive force and police brutality to be held accountable for… — Porsha Williams Copy Share Image
There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When you hear these stories about different cases of police brutality, don't even just make that person just another hashtag, another statistic.… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
When Colin Kaepernick first took a knee, he took it, and he identified police brutality, aggressive policing techniques, he broadened it to… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
I'm sick of watching 'Blue Lives Matter' supporters idly stand by any police officer simply because he wears blue, ignoring the facts… — Seph Lawless Copy Share Image
It's becoming much more common to see yoga studios offer classes aimed exclusively at people of color who are searching for ways… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
“The black officer checks Daddy while his partner glances around at all of the onlookers. There's quite a few of us now.… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
Kneeling for the anthem does nothing to advance solutions to racial injustice, police brutality, or any other social plight. It is a… — Matt Gaetz Copy Share Image
I have spent years representing victims of racial profiling and police brutality and investigating patterns of drug law enforcement in poor communities… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“What, you think if you live next door to them, they'll treat you different?" "Why does it always have to be about… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I think in order to achieve real change, we as the black community need to come up with real asks and we… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
I want people to start getting involved in voting for the Senate, Congress and local elections. I just want to see us… — Charlamagne Tha God Copy Share Image
Everybody's life matters. But that's why we have to say black lives matter, because the highest disproportionality, police brutality, disenfranchisement, education disproportionality… — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
It's this weird binary where I'm getting media images and narratives thrown at me all the time through something I hold in… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“[W]hile the use of non-lethal weapons such as tasers and LEDIs may not necessarily reduce the number of civilian casualties, they have… — John W. Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think we waste a lot of time trying to convince other people that we're right. A lot of times we don't… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“There are fundamentally two ways you can experience the police in America: as the people you call when there's a problem, the… — Chris L. Hayes Copy Share Image
“March 28, 1987: Today I read in the New York Times that all of the officers who killed Michael Stewart were again… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
“It would be easy to quit if it was just about me, Khalil, that night, and that cop. It's about way more… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Dee readies the Ruger to fire. He looks down the sights and finds the back of the young officer’s head. This is… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
“Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Copaganda obscures the active role police play in doing bad things. Many people have criticized the police-invented term "officer-involved shooting" because it… — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive… — Rodney King Copy Share Image
Need someone to make an uninformed concern trolling attack on Colin Kaepernick and his movement against police brutality? You can always count… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
“There were no passing cars to call out to. You couldn’t call for help from a police car, anyway; he didn’t think… — Dorothy B. Hughes Copy Share Image
Issues like immigration, police brutality, and other onerous laws put in place by local and state governments are prime avenues for active… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“If she wasn't standing there, I'd grab you and shake you until the fillings fell out of your teeth." "Police brutality." "It… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“The problem is, some officers put more stock in their title instead of their duty. Yes, your job title is "police." But… — Janelle Gray Copy Share Image
“Mr Judge, Jury & Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
We loathe mass incarceration. We loathe police brutality. But most of us have absolutely no idea how to address the critical flaws… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
“It is my assessment that most police officers who spend their days driving around USA cities will have some level of radiation… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
My background is: I'm a Black man in America, victim of police brutality, victim of institutional racism, working-class from working-class roots. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
“Turns out if you write about police violence and atrocities, if you wait a month, it'll happen again, so... That's America.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image