Racial Profiling Quotes

• I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

  Wen Ho Lee

  Long, Progress, May

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• I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

  Mills Lane

  Thinking, Would Be, Gone

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• I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Mean, Humor

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• I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, Law, Enforcement

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. May 9, 2010.

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• Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Past, Law, Community

  "No Country for 'Black Teens'" by Benjamin Jealous, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2013.

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• It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

  Aberjhani

  Men, Ideas, Silence

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• Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

  Brian Sandoval

  Support, Illegal

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• People want to say there isn't racial profiling at the airport, but let's be honest. If you first name is Mohammed, and your last name isn't Ali, leave a little extra time.

  Jay Leno

  Names, Extra Time, Airports

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• Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling.

  Mary Kissel

  Diversity, Quota, Definitions

  Source: www.wsj.com

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• I find that students are very strong on my issues, stronger than anyone: anti-death penalty, anti-racial profiling, campaign finance reform, questioning the anti-terrorism bill.

  Russ Feingold

  Strong, Issues, Reform

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

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• I'm not saying [racial profiling] doesn't happen; I'm saying I haven't experienced it.

  Deshaun Watson

  Happens, Havens

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.

  will.i.am

  Income, Use, Artificial Intelligence

  Source: thesource.com

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• I am going to get officers training to deescalate situations, ban racial profiling, and make body cameras available.

  Hillary Clinton

  Training, Body, Cameras

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.

  Stephen Lang

  Race, People, Want

  "EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Lang Talks White Irish Drinkers" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 24, 2011.

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• It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

  KRS-One

  Race, Hypocrisy, Hip Hop

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• Mayor De Blasio's appointment of Bill Bratton as police commissioner is the height of hypocrisy. Asking Bratton to stop racial profiling and stop and frisk is like asking an arsonist to help you put out fires. Bratton along with his partner Giuliani started and supported racial profiling stops. A new progressive mayor? I think not!

  Charles Barron

  Thinking, Fire, Hypocrisy

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• I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was the first time I had a chance to blow stuff up and take a family hostage.

  Kal Penn

  Thinking, Political, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full."

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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