The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The enduring racial isolation of the ghetto poor has made them uniquely vulnerable in the War on Drugs. What happens to them… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
After reading and studying and getting in touch with the amount of information that I had while I was researching to play… — Wagner Moura Copy Share Image
We let the lyrics be the focus of the song. Which is not what you hear with some of the zeitgeisty bands,… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Many people don't realize that financial incentives have been built into the drug war that guarantee that law enforcement will continue to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in… — Kurt Schmoke Copy Share Image
The murder clearance rate now in my city Baltimore is almost non-existent. Nobody can solve a murder, nobody can do any actual… — David Simon Copy Share Image
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“People are dying because of ignorance. They are dying because unremitting propaganda is denying them essential safety information. They are dying because… — Dominic Milton Trott Copy Share Image
“It made economic sense, if you looked at it from the right angle; it was not in the Clan’s interest for the… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving… — Sting Copy Share Image
[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality.… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education,… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
Just as Hitler used the Reichstag burning, the U.S. government now uses the so-called two wars, the War on Drugs and the… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
Defenders of the system will counter by saying this drug war has been aimed at violent crime. But that is not the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“But anyone who believes in the war on drugs is missing a crucial point as to why the war can never be… — Ryan Vanderford Copy Share Image
I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
By waging the drug war and "getting tough" almost exclusively in the 'hood, we've managed to create a vast new racial undercaste… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I have a regret that the entire discussion [with El Chapo]... ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
The bigger picture is that over the last 30 years, we have spent $1 trillion waging a drug war that has failed… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
America is a former slave state and a blatantly racist society, so the war on drugs, which is managed by white supremacists,… — Douglas Valentine Copy Share Image
The war on drugs is a joke. We spend $40 billion a year, and the proof that it's a failure is that… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he… — David Simon Copy Share Image
We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime!… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today,… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Although a million black men can be found in prisons and jails, public acknowledgment of the role of the criminal justice system… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
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