We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me. And I ain't never did… — Tupac Copy Share Image
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
The war on drugs has gone on for about forty-five, fifty years - and it's been a complete failure. If you had… — Richard Branson 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 fact that people of all colors have been ensnared by the drug war helps to preserve the system as a whole… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Law enforcement in the United States, thanks largely to the war on drugs; routinely targets people of color often living in ghetto… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Before the war on drugs, the war on terror, or the war on cancer, there was the war on female sexual desire.… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Most Americans violate drug laws in their lifetime, but the enemy in this war has been racially defined. Not by accident, the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary,… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“Drugs flow as effortlessly through the harbour as through los esteros, but the government and the DEA view drug trafficking as more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In Europe, nobody will bleep you, if you want to say a "bad" word on TV. The idea that some self-righteous little… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“EIGHTH AMENDMENT The government shall not “crack down” on drug crime while taking kickbacks from industries and companies perpetuating addiction and abuse.… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
“The human parallels are important here, because the legend of the urban pit bull would become a literal companion piece to America’s… — Bronwen Dickey Copy Share Image
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
So when I say we had been the cowards, yes, that's what I meant, we as a society. And that's everybody, including… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
If the drug war was waged in those communities it would spark such outrage that the war would end overnight. This literal… — Michelle Alexander 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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“This is what Mexican cops appreciate that American cops don’t. We are partners, mi hermano Arturo, in the same enterprise. Comrades in… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of… — Kofi Annan 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
