„Police officers are the best of us. Men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic – they put their lives on the line every single day.“

„More than two million people in the United States are behind bars, a higher rate of incarceration than any other country in the world, constituting a new Jim Crow. The total population in prison is nearly equal to the number of people in Houston, Texas, the fourth largest U. S. city. African Americans and Latinos make up 56 percent of those incarcerated, while constituting only about 32 percent of the U. S. population. Nearly 50 percent of American adults, and a much higher percentage among African Americans and Native Americans, have an immediate family member who has spent or is currently spending time behind bars. Both black men and Native American men in the United States are nearly three times, Hispanic men nearly two times, more likely to die of police shootings than white men. Racial divides are now widening across the entire planet.“

—  John Bellamy Foster Sociology professor and Marxist writer 1953

Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?, 2019

„This is a ping-pong game with American lives. These young men and women that we put in Anbar province, in Iraq, in Baghdad, are not beans. They're real lives. And we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder.“

—  Chuck Hagel United States Secretary of Defense 1946

On the Iraq troop surge of 2007, Excerpts From Senate Iraq Meeting, The Bellingham Herald, 24 January 2007, 2007-01-25 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IRAQ_EXCERPTS?SITE=WABEL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT,
2007

„Dealt with a best friend getting killed. It was [by] two 35-year-old black men. Wasn't no police officer involved, wasn't anybody else involved, and I didn't hear anybody shouting "black lives matter" then.“

—  Richard Sherman (American football) American football player 1988

As quoted in "Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman addresses 'Black Lives Matter' after post falsely attributed to him" http://blog.seattlepi.com/football/2015/09/16/seattle-seahawks-richard-sherman-addresses-black-lives-matter-after-post-falsely-attributed-to-him/ (16 September 2015), by Stephen Cohen, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Hearst Seattle Media
Press conference (16 September 2015)

„Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.“

—  Colson Whitehead, libro The Underground Railroad

Origine: The Underground Railroad

„because white men can't
police their imagination
black men are dying“

—  Claudia Rankine, libro Citizen: An American Lyric

Origine: Citizen: An American Lyric

„Let us by all means teach black history, African history, women’s history, Hispanic history, Asian history. But let us teach them as history, not as filiopietistic commemoration. The purpose of history is to promote not group self-esteem, but understanding of the world and the past, dispassionate analysis, judgment, and perspective, respect for divergent cultures and traditions, and unflinching protection for those unifying ideas of tolerance, democracy, and human rights that make free historical inquiry possible.“

—  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., libro The Disuniting of America

The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (New York: W W Norton, 1998) p. 104

„Black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.“

—  Toni Morrison American writer 1931 - 2019

Black Women Writers at Work (1983) by Claudia Tate

„... Latino or Hispanic families are quite matriarchal, if you hadn't noticed -- despite what we let the men believe. Hey, that's the way it goes. The men know it too, but we have to keep that illusion alive for them -- that there're the boss. Hey, I see that strikes a cord. Thank God, the men are applauding too.“

—  Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957

address to League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) on July 1, 2005
2007, 2008

„Men learn to call pain “glory”; women learn to call the police.“

—  Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

„There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.“

—  Pearl S. Buck American writer 1892 - 1973

Harper’s Magazine (August 1938), p. 232

„When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.“

—  Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943

Origine: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 71-72.

„I’ve rejoiced with you and mourned with you, what I have also seen, more than anything, is what is right with America. I see people working hard and starting businesses. I see people teaching kids and serving our country. I see engineers inventing stuff, doctors coming up with new cures. I see a younger generation full of energy and new ideas, not constrained by what is, ready to seize what ought to be.
And most of all, I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together — black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance, under the same proud flag, to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

2016, DNC Address (July 2016)

„Conservatives are very upset at the idea of a single-mom family. But they do their best to create a lot of them by sending American men off to war to be killed.“

—  Harry Browne American politician and writer 1933 - 2006

Origine: Liberty A to Z (2004), p. 49

„I am immensely proud to lead the men and women of the LAPD who work tirelessly every day to earn the trust of our communities and who risk their lives to protect those that live, work and visit the City of Angels.“

—  Charlie Beck Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department 1953

Quoted in: [December 5, 2014, http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2014/08/12/lapd-chief-charlie-beck-gets-another-5-years, Dennis Romero, August 12, 2014, LA Weekly, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Gets Another 5 Years]

„A mental shortcut becomes almost irresistible and maybe even rational by some lights. The two young black men on one side of the street look like so many others the officer has locked up. Two white men on the other side of the street—even in the same clothes—do not. The officer does not make the same association about the two white guys, whether that officer is white or black. And that drives different behavior. The officer turns toward one side of the street and not the other. We need to come to grips with the fact that this behavior complicates the relationship between police and the communities they serve.“

—  James Comey American lawyer and the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 1960

2010s, Hard Truths: Law Enforcement (2015)

„It was more than fun, and it was more than great… It was historic. What Oprah did by acknowledging those women… they've not only had an impact on women, and African-American women, but on men, and on the world. They really have changed the culture for the better. It's a great inspiration.“

—  Tom Cruise American actor and film producer 1962

Loving Life http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Loving-Life. Oprah.com. May 23, 2005.

„Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.“

—  Charles Dickens, libro Casa Desolata

Origine: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 47

„As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.“

—  Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014

„Educated men — "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.“

—  Peter Kropotkin Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geographer, writer 1842 - 1921

Here Kropotkin seems to be refering to the French philosopher Charles Fourier, and not the French scientist Joseph Fourier.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)