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"The debasing and baneful influence of hashish and opium is not restricted to individuals, but has manifested itself in nations and races as well. The dominant race and most enlightened countries are alcoholic, whilst the races and nations addicted to hemp and opium, some of which once attained the heights of culture and civilization, have deteriorated both mentally and physically."
-- Dr A. E. Fossier, "The Marihuana Menace," 1931.

"As it is apparent to all that a prince is constituted by God to be the ruler of the people... and whereas God did not create the people slaves to their prince, to obey his commands, whether right or wrong, but rather the prince for the sake of the subjects... And when he does not behave thus, but on the contrary oppresses them... they may not only disallow his authority, but legally proceed to the choice of another prince for their defence..." 
-- Dutch Declaration of Independence, 1581.

-- Journalist H.L. Mencken’s description of prohibition:
 “Boobus Americanus trying to enforce its morals on a sophisticated society.”

-- Sir Paul McCartney quote:
I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.
-- Paul McCartney 'Many Years from Now', 1997.
http://www.hempfiles.com/php/quote.php?id=17

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. 
-- Plato.

"A hippie is someone who can be set down on any street corner in the world, and find marijuana." 
-- Jack Kerouac.

"I don't think witchcraft is a religion. I would hope the military officials would take a second look at the decision they made."
-- George W. Bush, June 24, 1999, then Governor of Texas, interviewed on ABC's Good Morning America. He disapproved of Wiccan soldiers having been given the same religious rights as others in the military.
http://www.geocities.com/paul49200/burning.html

"I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population is composed of Spanish- speaking persons, most of whom are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions."
-- Editor, Alamosa Daily Courier, 1936.
http://www.narconews.com/readerstodavidow.html

"Fifty per cent of the violent crimes committed in districts occupied by Mexicans, Greeks, Turks, Filipinos, Spaniards, Latin Americans, and Negroes may be traced to the use of marihuana."
-- U.S. Drug Czar Harry Anslinger, 1936.
http://www.narconews.com/readerstodavidow.html

There was fun in the House Health Committee during the week when the Marihuana bill came up for consideration. Marihuana is Mexican opium, a plant used by Mexicans and cultivated for sale by Indians. "When some beet field peon takes a few rares of this stuff," explained Dr. Fred Fulsher of Mineral County, "He thinks he has just been elected president of Mexico so he starts out to execute all his political enemies. I understand that over in Butte where the Mexicans often go for the winter they stage imaginary bullfights in the 'Bower of Roses' or put on tournaments for the favor of 'Spanish Rose' after a couple of whiffs of Marijuana. The Silver Bow and Yellowstone delegations both deplore these international complications" Everybody laughed and the bill was recommended for passage.
-- The Montana Standard, 1929.
http://www.narconews.com/readerstodavidow.html

*Early Bob Dylan Pics 41-63. bobcoolsmokin63.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/de/dylanite/index.html

Turning and turning in the widening gyre 
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; 
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere 
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; 
The best lack all conviction, while the worst 
Are full of passionate intensity. 

"The Second Coming" 
William Butler Yeats (1921).

"Laws are like spider webs. If some poor weak creature comes up against them -- it is caught. But the bigger one can break through and get away."
-- Solon, Greek philosopher, c. 630-555 B.C.

"Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere."
-- Victor Hugo

"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."
-- William Blake

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics, doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
-- PERICLES (430 BC)

"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to prevail in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."Bob Dylan
-- Edmund Burke, British statesman, 1729-1797.

"What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad."
-- Morpheus (from "The Matrix")

When we remember that we are all mad,
mysteries disappear and life
stands explained.
-- Mark Twain

"Spirituality without science is blind; science without spirituality is lame."
-- Albert Einstein

"I can remember, some 40 years ago, as a young policeman in Harlem, gathering in the bar with my colleagues after work listening to them complain vigorously about the junkies who made our work so difficult. During our discussions, we drank prodigious amounts of beer without the slightest awareness we were consuming a drug that could be as lethal as heroin. In fact, more of my fellow policemen died in driving accidents after these drinking sessions than were slain in the line of duty."
-- Joseph D. McNamara, D.P.A.. Commentary: Criminalization of Drug Use. Psychiatric Times, September 2000, Vol. XVII Issue 9.
http://www.mhsource.com/pt/p000903.html

Problems cannot be solved
at the same level of awareness
that created them.
- - Albert Einstein

The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?
-- Victor Hugo

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
-- Henry David Thoreau

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
-- Albert Einstein
http://www.zmag.org/quotes/quotesResults.cfm?topic1=Culture

Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud. It is wrapped in the livery of Heaven, but it comes to serve the devil. It comes to regulate by law our appetites and our daily lives. It comes to tear down liberty and build up fanaticism, hypocrisy, and intolerance. It comes to confiscate by legislative decree the property of many of our fellow citizens.
-- From an 1887 speech by Roger Q. Mills of Texas.

1986: “Marijuana leads to homosexuality, the breakdown of the immune system, and therefore to AIDS.”
-- Carlton Turner. White House Drug Czar under Ronald (6) Wilson (6) Reagan (6).
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/AA/ECH23.HTM

1937: “Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.”
-- Congressional Testimony, H.J. Anslinger, of the FBN. FBN was a precursor of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency).

Rich nations are shamefully stingy about aiding the
poor, but none more so than the United States. In
1999, the United States gave 0.1 percent of its
economic output for development, or $9.1 billion, the
lowest proportion among the 30 or so wealthiest
nations. Moreover, America stipulates that about
two-thirds of the $9 billion must be spent on American
products.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/01/business/01SCEN.html

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
-- Aldous Huxley.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe.
-- Albert Einstein

“Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity"
-- Horace Mann, first president, Antioch College.

"The Drug War is the United States' version of the Berlin Wall that effectively separates those of higher consciousness from those who have yet to experience it."
-- Julia Carter at the San Francisco MMM Cannabis 2000 rally May 6, 2000.

1974: “Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana.”
-- Ronald Reagan, in the Los Angeles Times.
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/AA/ECH23.HTM

When a well-packaged web of lies
has been sold gradually to the masses
over generations, the truth will seem
utterly preposterous and its speaker
a raving lunatic.
-- Dresden James

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.
But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

There are no innocents. It is all of us together by action and
inaction who made the world what it is.
-- Mithras

"If large numbers of people believe in Free Speech, there will be freedom of speech"
-- George Orwell

"The FCC can kiss my Bill of Rights"
-- Stephen Dunifer

"A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to. And any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish. The true criterion of the practical, therefore, is not whether the latter can keep intact the wrong and foolish; rather is it whether the scheme has the vitality enough to leave the stagnant waters of the old, and build, as well, sustain life."
-- Emma Goldman

I would not lead you into the promised land because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out.
-- Eugene V. Debs

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words [or images]. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
-- Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)

"I ain't no Communist, and I ain't no socialist/
I ain't no capitalist, and I ain't no imperialist/
I ain't no Democrat, I sure ain't no Republican either/
I only know one party, and that is freedom, I am, I am/
I am a patriot, and I love my country/
Because my country is all I know,"
-- Eddie Vedder

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
-- Mark Twain -

"One dissident anywhere is a threat to tyrants everywhere"
-- Ken Larsen

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The most potent weapon of the
oppressor is the mind of the
oppressed.
-- Steven Biko

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

The human mind treats a new idea the way
the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
-- Biologist P.B. Medawar

"Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated."
-- Ralph Nader

"This is what the Republicans are calling a Wizard of Oz ticket. You see, Cheney needs a heart, Bush needs a brain."
-- Jay Leno

Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness.
-- Tao Te Ching of Lao-tsu

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
-- British educator Herbert Spencer.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
-- Brendan Behan (1923-1964) Irish dramatist, author

Shall we go on conferring our civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?
-- Mark Twain

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From Dwight Eisenhower:

"Every gun that's made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from all those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and not clothed.

This world in arms, which has continued...trillions of dollars...is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

This is not a way of life in any true sense. Under a cloud of threatening war it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

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Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer."
-- Bruce Graham

"You`ll miss 100% of all the shots you don`t take."
-- Wayne Gretsky, hockey player.

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

I am old enough to know that victory is often a
thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage...
What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom.
The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no
earthly thing can break you.
-- Paula Giddings

"There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship."
-- Ralph Nader

"PARANOIA is when you have all the facts"
-- william burroughs

"You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to
make it happen the way you want to take it."
-- German proverb

"In the beginning of a change, The Patriot is a scarce man,
brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however,
the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
-- Mark Twain

"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the
lot of others. . .they send forth a ripple of hope, and crossing each
other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those
ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of
oppression and resistance."
-- Robert F. Kennedy

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"Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun."
........Eugene V. Debs (1894)

`I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole'
-- Malcolm X

"Sometimes you have to air the outhouse. The stink doesn't go away on its own"
-- Geraldo Rivera

"I cannot believe that war is the best solution.
No one won the last war and no one will win the next."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Free your mind, and your ass will follow."
-- George Clinton {the musical galactic master of funk}.

"...and hemp is invaluable as a medicine,"
-- George Washington, in his plea to congress to subsidize hemp farming.

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's best, night
and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
-- e.e. cummings

Where's the federal "Drug War" when we really need it? They'll throw you in jail for smoking a joint, but you can get Ritalin for a two-year-old from a doctor. What a horrible joke!
-- Jim Hightower

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
-- William O. Douglas

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely the lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.
-- Machiavelli

His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. Education and the Human Heart
http://csf.colorado.edu/sine/transcripts/HHDL.html
"By keeping the larger community in mind, we can eliminate the problems resulting from narrow- mindedness or short- sightedness or extreme selfishness, none of which help a person or a community achieve the goal of happiness. When you think along these lines, you will come to realize that what we call love and compassion is not necessarily a religious matter. They are basic necessities of life not only for society but also for the individual."

"You will be absorbed -- resistance is futile"
-- the Borg, in Star Trek
"There is no alternative"
-- Lady Margaret Thatcher

"It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by the forcible transportation and education of the infant against the will of the father."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body."
-- John Stuart Mill, 1859

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
-- John Steinbeck

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches to one who
is striking at the root."
-- Henry David Thoreau

From: TomTerrific - 05:06pm Oct 20, 1999 PDT (# 119 of 123) (on Salon's Table Talk)
"A man's best friend is his dogma"

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,
something to love and something to hope for."
-- Joseph Addison

"For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism."
-- Julia Butterfly Hill

If I can't dance, I don't want any part of your revolution.
-- Emma Goldman

"Why can't we all just get a bong?"

"At its best, activism comes about as our expanding circles of compassion encounter our capacity for free will."
-- Alice Walker

Marijuana is a registered trademark of God.
-- http://www.freepot.com

Prohibition is an awful flop.
We like it.
It can't stop what it's meant to stop.
We like it.
It's left a trail of graft and slime
It don't prohibit worth a dime
It's filled our land with vice and crime,
Nevertheless, we're for it.
-- newspaperman Franklin P. Adams, 1931

"We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards;
engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship,
invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce
domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial
decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding
derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and
our common jeopardy."
-- Carl Sagan
(1934-1996)
from his book: Billions & Billions.

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there
is no distinctly native American criminal class except
Congress."
-- Mark Twain

"Suppose I were an idiot, and suppose I were a member of
Congress-- but I repeat myself."
-- Mark Twain

MARK TWAIN quotes:

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"All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
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"Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."
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"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
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"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
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"When in doubt, tell the truth."
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"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
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"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking."
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"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
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"Always do right. That will gratify some of the people, and astonish the rest."
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"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
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"It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible."
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"It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble."
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"I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."
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"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
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"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination."
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
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"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."
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"Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts."

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