When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.
About Mary Frances Berry
Mary Frances Berryis an American historian, writer, lawyer, activist and professor who focuses on U.S. constitutional and legal, African-American history. Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought where she teaches American legal history at the Department of History, School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
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If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she’d still be standing.
American historian, writer, lawyer, activist and professor
When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don’t believe in compromise.
American historian, writer, lawyer, activist and professor
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.
American historian, writer, lawyer, activist and professor
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can’t be done.
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The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.
American historian, writer, lawyer, activist and professor