Unequal Protection Quotes

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them.

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

If blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. Or else get weapons. Your lives are worth so much less than theirs.

I cannot support a measure that chooses to protect some women and not others.

I knew a blond [white] girl once. She was far safer walking alone at night on the streets than she was walking with me, an incredibley humiliating experience for me. But it happens all the time in America.

We cannot have different policing for different communities. It is inherently unfair.

Everyone could relate to that feeling of when, even if you've done nothing wrong and you see the police behind you, you get nervous.

If I were just your average 23-year-old girl, and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action. But because I am a famous person, well, sorry, ma'am, there's nothing we can do. It makes no sense.