"When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have 2-3 million prisoners: 743 people per 100,000 in the population. The U.S. has 5% of the world's population, but 25% of its prisoners. As Senator Jim Webb once put it, Either we are home to the most evil people on earth or we are doing something different and vastly counterproductive."

-- Maia Szalavitz

#War Quotes #Home Quotes #June Quotes

“We in Europe ... do not consider the freedom to buy weapons a human right.”
“Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.”
“Keep looking at me,â€ she said, laughing as though we were having an amusing conversation. â€œHeâ€™s staring at you. And I mean staring. That boy is undressing you with his eyes. Can you feel it?â€ Her expression was triumphant. Could I feel his stare? I can now, thanks, I thought.”
“Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.”
“I was working in theater, so I didn't get to go to my prom.”
“I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.”

Source : "Gone with the Wind/ Trivia". www.imdb.com. 1939.
“At some point, every once in a while, through the year, I'll make up a list of all my current ideas. And then I'll add a few add a few, and I just realize that I'm going to die before I get them all done. But it's kind of nice - I'm never gonna be bored.”
“And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?”

Source : Discussion at the Seattle Independent Media Center, August 10, 2003.

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