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Quote from Robert J. Cottrol,

"In the Jim Crow South, for example, government failed and indeed refused to protect blacks from extra-legal violence. Given our history, it's stunning we fail to question those who would force upon us a total reliance on the state for defense.



By:

Robert J. Cottrol (more quotes by Robert J. Cottrol or books by/about Robert J. Cottrol)


Professor at Rutgers School of Law and George Washington University, member of the ACLU and the NAACP

Source:

A Liberal Democrat’s Lament, The American Enterprise, 1999.

Categories:

Defense, Dependence, Statism, Violence

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