765 Quotes About Police
- Author Alex Garland
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I didn't get the impression that the policeman cared much about the whole thing either. After another thirty minutes of ruthless interrogation ('Can you ve'fy you eat banan' pancake?') he let me go asking me not to leave Khao San within 24 hours
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- Author Sandra Balzo
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Goody. That must be why they were looking for a 22-caliber anything when they came by with their search warrant this morning.''They didn't!''They did.''When?''Oddly enough, right before I upped my meds.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Police officers are among the most corrupt people that I have encountered in life.
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- Author Zora Neale Hurston
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Oh, dey put me under arrest one day for vacancy in Bartow. When de judge found out Ah had a job of work. He took and searched me and when he found out Ah had a deck of cards on me, he charged me wid totin' concealed cards, and attempt to gamble, and gimme three months. Then dey made out another charge 'ginst me. 'Cused me of highway shufflin', and attempt to gamble. You know dese white folks sho hates tuh turn a n****r loose, if every dey git dey hands on 'im.
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- Author Kenneth Eade
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He didn’t see a man with hopes and dreams, with disappointments and accomplishments. All he saw in front of him was just another nigger.
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- Author Kevin Young
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There are gods of fertility, corn, childbirth, & police brutality--this last is offered praise & sacrifice near weekly & still cannot be sated
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- Author Langston Hughes
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Maybe you'll be better treated next time.""Not as long as I am black," said Simple."You look at everything, I regret to say, in terms of black and white.""So does the Law," said Simple.
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- Author maya angelou
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Maybe the cops have got him." The knowledge of what police do to black men rose wraithlike before my eyes.
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- Author maya angelou
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Lighting: a hundred Watts Detroit, Newark and New YorkScreeching nerves, exploding mindslives tied toa policeman's whistlea welfare worker's doorbellfinger
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