Abuse of power Quote by Colson Whitehead

“The cops watched me and the Georges and the other foreigners who worked the streets, and they knew exactly what we were doing. They…

— Gregory David Roberts

“As far as i was concerned, the police in the Black communities were nothing but a foreign, occupying army, beating, torturing, and murdering people…

— Assata Shakur

“If it was the Border Patrol’s job to apprehend lawbreakers, it was equally their duty to save the lost and the dying.”

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“Nigger, you sure ought to be glad it was us you talked to that way. You’re a lucky bastard, ’cause if you’d said that…

— Richard Wright

“My point is that police make choices about where they direct their attention. Today they focus almost exclusively on the poor. That’s their heritage,…

— Cathy O'Neil

“The police, he imagined, were now walking around the parked car. He imagined their bandit chaser was parked beside the car and now they…

— David Goodis

“I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street.…

— Lena Horne

“The goal was organized resistance to racial subjugation, and its harassing effect was probably more potent precisely because they risked so much without either…

— Derrick Bell

“There were times when the world did not need policemen, because what it really did need was for somebody who knew what they were…

— Terry Pratchett

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou

“We'd never talked about it, but I figured you knew the rules. If a cop stopped, you didn't run, you didn't talk back, you…

— Una LaMarche

“I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then…

— William Faulkner