Quotes About Arrest

Black and brown people in communities like mine, when arrested are more likely to be convicted and receive harsher sentences than our white counterparts. A justice system that actually hands out justice isn't as cruel, violent and racially biased as the one we've got.

A populace he saw not as either victim or threat, but as brothers and sisters. Equals, to be respected and protected. And sometimes arrested.

When Thoreau was arrested for protesting an injustice, Ralph Waldo Emerson had visited him in prison and said, "Henry, what are you doing in there?" And Thoreau had replied, "Ralph, what are you doing out there?

I'm an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy - I lock everybody up.

he and the count seemed to work among the same people, he at least had the consolation of being able to arrest them, whereas the count was constrained to invite them to dinner.

He had lived most of his adult life in fear of arrest, of warrants, of detectives, of getting caught. The fear had so thoroughly consumed him for so long that his daily routines included all manner of cautionary moves. And he remained, so far, ahead of the bloodhounds.

In his haste to get his client on and off the stand with as little damage as possible, Barney neglected to rebut most of the allegations from the state's witnesses. Ron could have explained his "dream confession" to Rogers and Featherstone the night after his arrest.

She ordered him to surrender, and when he prevaricated, she sent spies to Strathbogie to arrest him

six hundred nobles were captured, including the constable and four of his sons, who were imprisoned.

We spent hours and hours on the red couch, giggling, The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.

The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

As soon as the English bishop stepped off the boat he was seized,

Only when everything else failed did a good sheriff make an arrest. The best sheriff was not the best fighter but the best diplomat.

You with the tentacles, you're nicked!

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

After being arrested in June 2000, Reardon pleaded guilty of 75 counts of abuse, including rape, of 24 boys, and received up to 50 years in prison for his crimes. The YMCA quickly settled the boys' claims against it; but the church held out for another year.46 The Boston Archdiocese finally paid $85 million to settle the claims of 552 victims, including Reardon's, in September 2003.

As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.

The police are on the way to arrest you for stealing my heart, hijacking my feelings, and driving me crazy.

women chained in place with bike locks, leading their arresting officers in a round of "Amazing Grace." "This is the manufactured division that keeps us separated," Ethan told me. "And separation is the source of how we're in this position." What if he could re-create the joy and song and theater of the protesters but without a demonstration?

Internal Security Act, which gave the police virtually unlimited powers to arrest and detain without trial.

In fact it was the burning of his sermons, not his arrest, which turned Bhindranwale against his political godfather, Zail Singh, and against Mrs Gandhi.

I was once arrested for resisting arrest.

That you exist, is offense enough to arrest you.