"The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers."

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Source : "The Return of Frank Serpico". Frank Serpico's speech before the New York Knapp Commission on police corruption and other misconduct, www.villagevoice.com. October 1971.

Frank Serpico

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“I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.”
“I'll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig.”
“It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.”
“I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless?”
“Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to be seen as successful. Rather, the entire reason for our worship is that God deserves it. (Worship) immerses us in the regal splendor of the King of the cosmosâ€¦provides opportunities for us to enjoy Godâ€™s presence in corporate ways that takes us out of time and into the eternal purposes of Godâ€™s kingdom. As a result, we shall be changedâ€”but not because of anything we do. God, on whom we are centered and to whom we submit, will transform us by his Revelation of himself.”
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”

Source : "Our Mutual Friend". Book by harles Dickens, 1865.
“I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.”

Source : Source: medium.com
“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

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