#the

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#caused #crimes #criminals #enter #gang

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#get #give #go #going #liberty

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#catalog #entire #i #like #song

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#america #black #born #cloud #harder

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#artists #experience #kind #literally #lot

I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#billie #billie holiday #comparison #creative #emotion

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#certain #every #marked #nations #others

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#coming #communication #does #growth #i

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. ↗

— Joan Baez

#flop #non-violence #only #organization #than

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job. ↗

— Joan Baez

#change the world #had #i #job #obviously