“Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers” PeopleGivingDoeStrongForcePowerRightsSecurityPoliticianAuthorityPoliceHuman RightsOppressionRegulationViolationRepressionPolice ForceSecurity Systems Author:Hanan Ashrawi
“When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights - whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.” PeopleUseNamesTermRightsExamplePoliceUnionsWorkersOilStrikesLocalsRadicalMinoritiesCapitalistPigsAdoptedMonopolyHippieCrackedReferringConstitutional RightsStrikersBeing Adopted Author:Bobby Seale
“Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military police or regiments of horse-guards, but by the spontaneous concert of a well-informed population, resolved that the rights which have been rescued from despotism shall not be subverted by anarchy.” PeopleWellsHas BeensGovernmentOrderRightsMilitaryHorsePolicePopulationConcertsAnarchySpontaneousDespotismFree GovernmentMilitary Police Book:Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions
“Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.” YearsInterestRightsGenerationsProduceAuthorityPoliceThreatenedNew GenerationSwedishLukewarmLegal Rights Author:Steig Larsson
“[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
“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
“The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.” PeopleWarWholeYoungPoliticalProcessBlackDealsCitiesPovertyIssuesRightsMovementHappeningsProgramPoliceAngryResponseSeparationCivil RightsVietnamPolice BrutalityBrutalityCivil Rights MovementDetroitInsufficientContinuumDemocratizationBlack PowerDisenfranchisement Author:Danny Glover
“The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in this absurd notion. Many were intimidated into voting for police state legislation, because they lacked the intestinal fortitude to call police state legislation by its own name. The legislation that has been passed during the Bush regime is far more dangerous to Americans than Muslim terrorists.” GivingHas BeensStatesNamesRightsDangerousGiving UpPoliceBillsDemocratNotionTerrorTerroristAbsurdVotingRegimesProtectedLegislationFortitudeIntimidatedBill Of RightsPolice StateMuslim TerroristsIntestinal Fortitude Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.” WorldHumansShowsRealityGovernmentAmericaRightsTeamPoliceHuman RightsReality Of LifeInterviewsKoreaViolationNorth KoreaTeam America Author:Jennifer Armintrout
“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