Targeted Harassment Quotes

Stop the normalisation of political violence against the Right!

I've physically seen profiling. I've seen me walking up the street with my friends, and the police officers get out of their car and bust the hell out of my friends. And they can't do anything about it, and the cop gets back in his car and drives off.

Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.

Unfortunately, I have the equivalent of 7 PhDs in harassment on Twitter. As one of the primary targets of Gamergate, I've had hundreds and hundreds of threats to my life on Twitter's platform.

I had blackouts, fallen out, of course, the death threats, people showing up, putting guns to my wife's head with mask, and people having shot guns in the driveway, looking for me or announcing that I've already died before lectures and sending it through newspaper - sending it to newspaper columns they send my mother and so on. There's a real night side to my particular calling, which is try to bear witness to love and truth.

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.

Government troops [police] are worse to the civilians than are the bandits whom the troops are trying to eliminate.

I got tired of walking through Durham with people screaming 'Carolina' at me when I walk through Walmart and stuff like that.

The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.

My kids were targeted on Facebook by protesters.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

The intelligence agencies sometimes abuse people. The FBI abused Martin Luther King.

May 20, 2017, was one of the scariest days of my life. It was the day I realized I was being hunted by Erdogan.

I just know that on TV or off TV, I've been very much targeted and torn apart.

The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment.

I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we were the only black people in that neighborhood, the cops got called, and we had guns drawn on us. Came in the house, without knocking, guns drawn on my teammates and roommates. So I have experienced this.