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If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Jane Addams, Activist (1860) |
Bruno Bauer, Theologian (1809) |
Henry Seidel Canby, Critic (1878) |
John Dalton, Scientist (1766) |
Robyn Davidson, Writer (1950) |
Carly Fiorina, Businesswoman (1954) |
Naveen Jain, Businessman (1959) |
William R. Keating, Politician (1952) |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Diplomat (1888) |
Marquis De Lafayette, Revolutionary (1757) |
Philip James Bailey, Poet (1902) |
Hanns Eisler, Composer (1962) |
Edmund Gibson, Judge (1748) |
Herbert Kaufman, Writer (1947) |
Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist (2007) |