“[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.” ThinkingWellsProblemCertainChoicesForceNationsRolesRightsViolenceSecurityPolicySeriousPrideGunStandingArmyPoliceTablesCourtAmendmentsSupreme CourtMeltingSecond AmendmentGun ViolenceConstitutional RightsPolice ForceSupreme Court JusticeCourt JusticePersonal Security Author:Antonin Scalia
“Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choices and live their own lives.” PeopleHas BeensPoliticalChoicesCitiesEconomicPressurePoliceBlockPeacefulSecureConcreteWireCirculationBarbed Wire Author:John F. Kennedy
“In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.” PeopleChoicesEconomyMilitarySpeechPoliceElectionSlaveControlledDictatorship Author:Alex Jones
“Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.” PeopleFirstsHumansLastsLawSpiritValuesChoicesBeliefGivenLinesChanceSecretDemocracySecurityWeaponsOrdinaryGunUltimateUniversalPoliceWesternSpreadTyrannyDictatorshipHuman SpiritOrdinary PeopleDefenceRule Of LawSecret PoliceWestern Values Author:Tony Blair
“And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we can. Every drop of oil from Alberta is one less drop from some fascist theocracy, or some brutal warlord; one less cent into the treasuries of Russia's secret police and al-Qaeda's murderers.” IfsWorldWayChoicesGoalSecretMoralCitizensPoliceOilRussiaSandAlsCentsBrutalBetter PlaceMurdererSteamFascistsAl QaedaPumpsTreasuryDrillsFortsTheocracySecret PoliceWarlordsAlberta Author:Ezra Levant
“It's what you do when you have Allison Janney.My jaw-dropped at her performance. You think that part is sort of a regular part until she steps into the shoes of the officer. She just filled it with such dimension and by giving her the whole shebang, the whole police thread, I think it was the right choice.” ThinkingGivingWholeChoicesStepsPerformancesPoliceFilledShoesDimensionsOfficersThreadRight ChoicesAllison Author:Erin Cressida Wilson
“I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.” PeopleThinkingUseFormChoicesForceJusticeDutyArmyPoliceGuardianFreedom Of Choice Author:Pierre Trudeau
“President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against black people in Chicago is reflective of Mr. Emmanuel's values.” PeopleValuesChoicesBlackPresidentViolencePoliceChiefsBarackChicagoBlack PeopleStaffPresident Barack ObamaQuestionableEmmanuelPolice ViolenceChief Of Staff Author:Julianne Malveaux
“When young black men reach a certain age - whether or not there is incarceration in their families - they themselves are the target of police stops, interrogations, frisks, often for no reason other than their race. And, of course, this level of harassment sends a message to them, often at an early age: No matter who you are or what you do, you're going to find yourself behind bars one way or the other. This reinforces the sense that prison is part of their destiny, rather than a choice one makes.” MenWayMatterReasonAgeYoungCertainChoicesCoursesBlackLevelsRaceBehindsDestinyMessagesPoliceWho You ArePrisonBarsOne WayNo ReasonFinding YourselfTargetHarassmentIncarcerationInterrogation Author:Michelle Alexander
“Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.” PeopleLawChoicesGivenChanceSecretDemocracyOrdinaryPoliceTyrannyDictatorshipDictatorOrdinary PeopleRule Of LawSecret Police Author:Tony Blair
“There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.” StatesDiesChoicesCitizensPoliceHungerLove One Another Author:W. H. Auden
“I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.” MindSpiritChoicesBehindsPoliceLaysStrangerAssumptionUrgesSubmitSovereignSchooledPolice Power Author:John Taylor Gatto
“All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State and no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.” MenStatesLyingDiesChoicesVoiceBrainSkyStreetsBuildingCitizensAuthorityPoliceHungerSensualThriveBeing HappyLove One Another Author:W. H. Auden
“Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.” PeopleLittlesSchoolChoicesDealsVirtueTeacherTeachingSpecialPolicyStudentsSkillsDegreesPoliceBottomOccupationClassroomAutonomyPyramidsCurriculumPublic EducationPlacementPolice Work Book:Among School Children Source: Among School Children
“The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with no choice but to protect themselves as best they can, they now try to take our guns away. In fact they blame us and our guns for crime. This is so wrong that it cannot be an honest mistake.” TryingMadeStatesFactsCareChoicesLeftDifficultMistakeClassHonestCrimeCitizensProtectOrdinaryGunPoliceSafetyBlameMade ItGun ControlRulingMiscellaneousPro GunFounding Fathers GunPublic SafetyLocalityOrdinary CitizensGun SafetyGun Crime Author:Malcolm Wallop
“I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, 'She must have provoked him,' or, 'Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.' They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.” IfsMenWayTwoIdeasMotherChoicesFightingFatherHouseViolenceHeardTruth IsConflictDeserveStandingPoliceResponsibleNo IdeaProvokingProvoked Author:Patrick Stewart