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“We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.”

Government Speak Dog Tears Becoming Police Gas Bullets Rubber Detention Irrelevance

Author:Desmond Tutu

“John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.”

“If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I should have to call it a ramble over several subjects, portions of which may seem to you to be impudent, and portions of which will be ignorant, and portions of which may contrive to be both at once.”

Ifs Should May Seems Speak Subjects Should Have Police Court Ignorant Evening Portions Remarks Oath

Book:Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading

Source: Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading

“It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.”

People Knows Feelings Speak Force Waiting Difficult Walks Groups Police Shoulders All Time These Days Waiting For You Large Groups

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is something that I cannot speak adequately to.”

Speak Term Race Violence Police Privilege Considering Nypd

Author:Cecily McMillan

“People are not afraid to be very direct with police. And I think that's part of the problem is that people are angry at the cops and then the cops are stressed out and they, you know, pay it backwards, so to speak.”

People Thinking Knows Problem Speak Pay Direct Police Angry Not Afraid Cop Backwards Stressed Hey You Stressed Out

Author:Jeff Ross

“Campaigns are fun. Campaigns are police escorts, they're airplanes, they're crowds, they're balloons, they're bands, a lot of fun. You speak in vague generalities. You get applause for slogans. And then governing comes. And governing is tedious and it's difficult an it's time-consuming and it demands your attention. And policy isn't vague generalities. It's specifics and it's based on knowledge.”

Speak Fun Difficult Attention Policy Band Demand Police Crowds Campaigns Airplane Vague Slogans Applause Consuming Governing Tedious Balloons Generalities Time Consuming Specifics

Author:Mark Shields

“America does not hold to the colonial tradition. America came, liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban and al-Qaida, came to an arrangement with Hamid Karzai, wanted to organize elections as soon as possible and then withdraw. The Bush administration thought that once there is a democracy, everything else will fall into place. If today you speak to the architects of the 2001 Afghanistan Conference in Bonn, they will tell you that instead of being fixated on elections, we should have built a State in Afghanistan with an army and a police force first.”

Today Fall Speak Democracy Tradition Army Police Election Afghanistan Architect Organize Taliban Fall Into Place

Author:Ahmed Rashid

“Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it." "Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest. "Not really," Jace said with a smile so disarming Simon knew he was lying. "My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.”

People Looks Said Young Lying Speak Interest Police Phrases Officers Jace Snakes Impressive Police Officer Poisonous Disarming

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.”

Government Wanted Speak Students Police Activism Bullets

Author:Vusi Mahlasela

“Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.”

Wells Night Speak Sides Cutting Particular Police Hotel September

Author:Tanya Tucker

“You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.”

“Police officers are well known for their aggressive behaviors, search "Police Officer Angry Aggression Theory". I can speak from personal experience that they do cover up for each other and target individuals that they have a vendetta on. Police Internal Affairs is just an extension of the cover up machine, they uphold very few complaints.”

Speak Theory Experience Police Angry Target Officers Aggressive Complaints Personal Affairs Up Individuals Machine Vendetta Few Internal Behaviors Cover Uphold

Author:Steven Magee