Jamal Murray Quotes

I've been harassed by police my whole life and seen people who looked like me treated like animals at the hands of law enforcement.

We are less than honest and commit a grave error if we insist that what happened to Rodney G. King was isolated and an exceptional case. The poor know better.

Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.

In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.

Most citizens viewing the tape of Rodney G. King being beaten by police officers were stunned and uncomprehending. Most citizens, that is, but the urban poor.

It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that it's going to take a lot to undo that in our minds.

The black police in Compton are worse than the white police.

We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jails over and over again. And then you holler, 'Be patient.' How long can we be patient?

I was raised to be very wary of the police. I was raised to stay away from them unless you absolutely have to. Because they're dangerous.

In order to cry out for my black brothers, I had to hate the police.

The police are not taking accountability for the violence that they enact in our communities, and yet there isn't as much outrage about that as there is about some broken windows and lost property.

I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves.

It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware.

The murder, savage brutality, and violence perpetrated by Alabama lawmen have so aroused the nation as to make action by the Congress necessary and speedy.

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder

Racialized oppression and dehumanization is woven into the very fabric of our nation — the effects of which can be seen in the lawful lynching of black and brown people by the police, and the mass incarceration of black and brown lives in the prison industrial complex,