Quote by Nicholas Johnson

“Self-defense is a universal exception to the state’s monopoly on legitimate violence. State failure drives the self-defense doctrine through the imminence requirement. Private violence…

— Nicholas Johnson

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

— Nicholas Johnson

“Following the July 1919 race riot in Washington, DC, Johnson investigated and offered this assessment of how and why peace was restored. “The Negroes…

— Nicholas Johnson

“Walter White’s more remarkable achievement in print was the book Rope and Faggot, which distilled his firsthand accounts of more than forty lynchings. Passing…

— Nicholas Johnson

“Backed by Klan-type organizations dubbed “Red Shirts” and “Rough Riders,” Democrats summoned thirty-two of the city’s prominent blacks and laid out their demands: All…

— Nicholas Johnson

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

— Nicholas Johnson

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

— Nicholas Johnson

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

— Nicholas Johnson

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

— Nicholas Johnson

“Perhaps as many as two hundred thousand black men were snared into the convict labor system on a variety of pretexts. One of the…

— Nicholas Johnson

“By 1870, roughly 284,000 blacks accounted for 12 percent of the population of sixteen Western states and territories. But Negroes actually show up as…

— Nicholas Johnson