Class Quote by David Simon

Various "wars on drugs" throughout history have killed millions, enslaved millions more, destroyed families, are usually just thin pretenses for mass incarceration, mass surveillance,…

— Kool A.D

The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I mean, to…

— George Jung

America is a former slave state and a blatantly racist society, so the war on drugs, which is managed by white supremacists, was and…

— Douglas Valentine

The War on Drugs is a war on people, but particularly it's been a war on low-income people and a war on minorities. We…

— Cory Booker

“At the time the drug war was declared, illegal drug use and abuse was not a pressing concern in most communities. The announcement of…

— Michelle Alexander

“When people discuss the drug war, they are usually referring to the one that began in the 1970s, without realizing that this was, at…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests…

— Michelle Alexander

Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave…

— John Hickenlooper

What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black…

— Eugene Jarecki

If the drug war was waged in those communities it would spark such outrage that the war would end overnight. This literal war is…

— Michelle Alexander

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

— Holly Near

“The story is complicated and contradictory. Sometimes this proclaimed ‘war on drugs’ has followed shifts in military threats; at times it is coloured by…

— Lintus Magnus