“John Kerry fell off of his bicycle over the weekend. He went for a Sunday afternoon ride, fell off in front of the news media. Luckily, his hair broke the fall so it's not as serious. ... Thankfully, Senator Kerry was not seriously injured. In fact, when the police arrived, Kerry was well enough to give conflicting reports to the officers about what happened.” GivingWellsEnoughFactsFallHappenedMediaFrontsSeriousHairNewsPoliceBrokeReportsSundayOfficersAfternoonWeekendSenatorsInjuredBicycleJohn KerryNews MediaSunday Afternoons Author:Jay Leno
“At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.” PeopleIfsShowsSchoolNightHumanityEducationHalfMillionsGenerationsFrontsTaughtCollegeHundredPoliceLawyerSeatsWickedInstructionOppressedWorldlyNeglectedRespectableBourgeoisMy GenerationYoungstersFreshmanBartenderGiddyMidwifeLieutenantsSophomoreWorldly WisdomCollege Freshmen Author:H. L. Mencken
“My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights.” TryingHumorFunnyRightsFrontsPoliceSuicideCommittedCivil RightsGrandmotherBusGreat Grandmother Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.” KnowsWaitingFrontsPoliceGreen Author:John Lennon
“My personal beliefs were shaped more by experience and by watching the news when I was young: images of angelic-looking college students in Mississippi crying like the world was ending because black people were being allowed on their campus; the slow mounting horror of Vietnam on the evening news every night; sitting with my parents in front of the TV and being appalled at the way the Chicago police were treating the protesters during the '68 Democratic convention. Being eyed with suspicion because of my age and the way I wore my hair.” PeopleWorldWayAgeYoungNightBeliefParentBlackFrontsCryStudentsCollegeTvsHairHorrorNewsSittingPoliceDemocraticEveningChicagoBlack PeopleVietnamConventionsEvery NightSuspicionMississippiCampusAngelicCollege StudentsPersonal Beliefs Author:James Vance
“Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.” MatterBlackIssuesRightsFrontsMovementPoliceSouthCivil RightsShootingBlack Lives MatterCarolinaSouth CarolinaBlack Lives Author:Ari Shapiro
“Are you in the car that's almost caused three accidents on North Vance?" Hannah asked. "Because I'm following you with my lights flashing, and whoever's driving isn't pulling over." "Let him go," Claire said. "Trust me. You aren't going to get him to stop." "Oh, God. It's Myrnin, isn't it?" "Tell that police lady to stop chasing me," Myrnin said, annoyed, from the front seat. "Really, I'm not THAT bad at this.” SaidLightThreeCarFrontsPoliceFollowingAccidentsDrivingSeatsPullingChasingTrust MeAnnoyedClaireMyrninLet Him GoMyrnin And ClaireChasing Me Author:Rachel Caine
“One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring of police and soldiers. A truck was parked in front of the fish mart; into the back were climbing men, women, and children, all wearing the yellow star. . . . "Father! Those poor people!" I cried. . . . "Those poor people," Father echoed. But to my surprise I saw that he was looking at the solders now forming into ranks to march away. "I pity the poor Germans, Corrie. They have touched the apple of God's eye.” PeopleMenChildrenEyeFoundFatherStarsWalksPoorSawsFrontsOne DayPoliceSurpriseSoldierFishesRingsPityApplesTouchedMarchClimbingYellowCriedPoor PeopleTruckMen Women Book:The Hiding Place Source: The Hiding Place
“Helen Crawfurd and the Women's Peace Crusade, made a march on the City Chambers, distributing an illegal leaflet in front of police and even to some of the police as well. The women forced their way into the building and the police had a really tough time trying to get them out. Word spread around that several of them had been arrested and this brought out new and very threatening demonstrations.” WayTryingWellsMadeCitiesFrontsBuildingToughPoliceSpreadIllegalMarchThreateningChamberTough TimesDemonstrationArrestedCrusadesHelen Author:Willie Gallacher
“As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote. I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom. I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. 'Selma' has awakened my humanity.” PeopleKnowsTwoHandsKidsHumanityGivenBlackLinesWhiteRightsFrontsMovementDutyNeededVotePoliceCaringI RealizedCivil RightsFallenHopefulOfficersDeniedBulletsSupporterBlack WomenAwakenedCivil Rights MovementPolice OfficerRight To VoteUnarmed Author:Common
“While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” IfsWantPersonsStillsBookCountryAmericaCertainHouseNamesWhiteRecordsSubjectsMediaFrontsPoliceCourtDemocraticLibrarySupremeDestroyedBurningTitlesRemoveWhite HouseSenateRepresentativesDesksShelvesSupreme CourtBullyLibrarianPublic LibraryHouse Of RepresentativesPhysical StrengthThought PoliceFront Desk Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go! - do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've just evicted would sputter, With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We're calling the police, you scoundrel.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsSaidHomeJoyDoorsStreetsFrontsCallingBirdPoliceScoundrelsFront Doors Book:Life of Pi Source: Life of Pi
“A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.” FrontsDoctorsPoliceVagueUneasiness Book:Three plays Source: Three plays