“Instead of war on poverty,
they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
" The Libertarian stand on abortion http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/Abortion.htm. <br class="br">2000s
“Instead of war on poverty,
they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
National Prayer Breakfast speech, Washington, D.C. (3 February 1994) http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/abortion/ab0039.html. <br class="br">1990s
William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008) American conservative author and commentator
The War On Drugs Is Lost (1995)
Context: More people die every year as a result of the war against drugs than die from what we call, generically, overdosing. These fatalities include, perhaps most prominently, drug merchants who compete for commercial territory, but include also people who are robbed and killed by those desperate for money to buy the drug to which they have become addicted.
This is perhaps the moment to note that the pharmaceutical cost of cocaine and heroin is approximately 2 per cent of the street price of those drugs. Since a cocaine addict can spend as much as $1,000 per week to sustain his habit, he would need to come up with that $1,000. The approximate fencing cost of stolen goods is 80 per cent, so that to come up with $1,000 can require stealing $5,000 worth of jewels, cars, whatever. We can see that at free-market rates, $20 per week would provide the addict with the cocaine which, in this wartime drug situation, requires of him $1,000.
Karl Dönitz (1891–1980) President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarine forces during World War II
The World at War: the Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series (2007) by Richard Holmes, Page 634.
“War is not included in the Second Five-Year Plan.”
Vasily Blyukher (1889–1938) Soviet military commander
Blyukher at the XVII Congress of the CPSU(b), 8 February 1934 http://www.hrono.ru/vkpb_17/25_5.html
Cecile Richards (1958) American feminist and abortion rights activist
Cecile Richards on Roe v. Wade Overturn: "This Is About Maintaining Political Power" https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a39916765/cecile-richards-on-roe-v-wade-overturn-supreme-court/ (PUBLISHED: MAY 5, 2022)
Stefan Molyneux (1966) libertarian philosopher, writer, speaker, and online broadcaster
Speech at International Conference on Men's Issues, St. Clair Shores, Michigan, June 28, 2014, quoted in "What I Learned as a Woman at a Men's-Rights Conference" https://time.com/2949435/what-i-learned-as-a-woman-at-a-mens-rights-conference/, Time (July 2, 2014)
Glenn Greenwald (1967) American journalist, lawyer and writer
Source: A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
Ethan Nadelmann (1957) American writer; campaigner for the legalization of marijuana
Mind Alteration, http://www.reason.com/news/show/32215.html an article published in Reason Magazine in July 1994. <br class="br">The War on Drugs