David Dowdy > Quotes

“If I had had more time, a few more detective sergeants to go into the neighborhoods, it might have been different. Individuals might have opened had they been given the chance. People knew the truth, but the walls of their self-preservation were too thick. Why won’t people try to destroy a system that’s killing them?”
“Because, if you’re a fish, said Haynes, “and you live in a fishbowl, you have a duty to preserve the fishbowl. No matter how much you hate it, you never dart at it too hard. You don’t dare.”
― David Dowdy