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2014 June 27
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"The country's first drug ban
explicitly targeted the opium
of 'the heathen Chinee.'
Cocaine was first banned in the
south to prevent an uprising of
hopped-up 'cocainized Negroes.'" |
"I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal,
unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated
like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they
are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and
you're treated like one." |
"Concepts of justice
must have hands and feet
or they remain sterile abstractions.
The hands and feet we need
are efficient means and methods
to carry out justice in every case
in the shortest possible time
and at the lowest possible cost." |
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2014 June 26
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"What I'd like to see police do is deal with important issues and not
these sorts of victimless crimes when society is riddled with problems." |
"By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring
to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering
the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it
according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence." |
"Marijuana leads to homosexuality ... and therefore to AIDS." |
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2014 June 25
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." |
"Public apathy is more powerful than public opinion.
There's more of it." |
"Nobody made a greater mistake
than he who did nothing
because he could only do a little." |
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2014 June 24
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"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation,
are people who want crops without ploughing the ground;
they want rain without thunder and lightning;
they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.
The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one,
or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
Power concedes nothing without a demand;
it never has and it never will." |
"Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffers, not the state." |
"It is, therefore, a fact of law and of practical necessity that
individuals are responsible for their own personal safety, and
that of their loved ones. Police protection must be recognized
for what it is: only an auxiliary general deterrent." |
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2014 June 23
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"All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance --
unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the
prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the
guarantees [of the First Amendment]." |
"Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?" |
"You seem ... to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy... The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal." |
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