Arrested Quote by Michelle Alexander

“Before we begin our tour of the drug war, it is worthwhile to get a couple of myths out of the way. The first…

— Michelle Alexander

The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison…

— Michelle Alexander

The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many…

— William S. Burroughs

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

Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation),…

— Noam Chomsky

“The critical point is that thousands of people are swept into the criminal justice system every year pursuant to the drug war without much…

— Michelle Alexander

The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is…

— Ellen Willis

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

— Holly Near

The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's the other…

— Jesse Ventura

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since…

— Henry Giroux

“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

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