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“It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were "them" and we were "us".”

Knows Trying Voice Struggle Clear Position Grew Needed Grew Up Police Neighborhood Helpful Rough Police Brutality Brutality Philadelphia

Author:Will Smith

“The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate. They misuse their power for the oppression of those whom they were expected to defend against oppression. The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.”

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have it. The police repression and the grower indifference to the workers' demands for recognition cannot go unheard so we're going to keep on struggling until we get that recognition.”

Struggle Demand Police Unions Workers Recognition Indifference Repression Unheard

Author:Cesar Chavez

“The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.”

Problem Political Liberty Struggle Becoming Police Libertarian Libertarianism Police Power

Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power.”

Mean Action Political Individual Liberty Struggle Concepts Police Aim Bounds Governors Arbitrary Defenders Police Power

Book:Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

“We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes out of me - wailing police sirens and street parties, rumors and landlords, that cultural, spiritual scene. And Ossie came up from the South, where struggle and dying were part of everyday life. That is who we are.”

Spiritual Party Struggle Streets Dying Grew Scene Grew Up Police South Everyday Atmosphere Who We Are Everyday Life Rumor Harlem Sirens Landlord Wailing

Author:Ruby Dee

“...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.”

“We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.”

Humans Political Evil Accepting Struggle Goes On Police Monsters Frightened Abstraction Deliverance

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems