W. E. B. Du Bois

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?

American Writer

Milton Friedman

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

American Economist

Michael Moore

Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.

American Activist

Lysander Spooner

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

American Philosopher

Kerry Kennedy

If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.

Will Rogers

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

American Actor

Calvin Coolidge

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

American President

Ken Kesey

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

American Author

Harry Anderson

Is now the time to legalize prostitution?

H. G. Wells

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The verb 'legalize' refers to an official change decided by a government or authority.

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'Legalize' is often used in discussions about controversial topics like drugs or prostitution.

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When 'legalize' is used, it might indicate a topic has public debates and differing opinions.

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 and incarcerated people I represent is just been absolutely transformative I was here three weeks before I was scheduled to argue two cases at the United States Supreme Court where we were asking the court to ban death and prison sentences imposed on children the u.s. is still the only country in the world that legalized its life

Talking about history...

 at one time legalized, discrimination in our country. There's no question about it. But still, as I grapple with this issue, my mother's question hangs in the air for How did they treat you? Now, I do not raise this issue to complain or in any way to elicit any kind of sympathy.

Color blind or color...

 we wouldn't have talked about how redlining and the legalized segregation of our past created the racially divided neighborhoods we live in today. We wouldn't have completely understood how racism is embedded in the framework of everything around us,

What it takes to be...

 this was right after marijuana was legalized. So I'd like to finish up quickly by just noting that this technology is not constrained. I've shown you purely visual examples because they're really fun to look at. It's not a purely visual technology.

How computers are...

 For decades, this view persisted and set back research on the drug's mechanisms and effects. Today, marijuana’s therapeutic benefits are widely acknowledged, and some nations have legalized medical use or are moving in that direction.

Is marijuana bad for...

 Will more people use marijuana? Maybe, but it's not going to be young people, because it's not going to be legalized for them, and quite frankly, they already have the best access to marijuana. I think it's going to be older people.

Ethan Nadelmann: Why we...

 until it's too late to fix it. So, we need something different, we need a different kind of solution. And the solution here, in my view, is a private solution, a solution that looks to legalize what it is to be young again,

Laws that choke...

 what you think you know about this legalized marijuana thing could be wrong listen I get it talking about issues with legal weed is a pretty quick way to get uninvited from the cool kids table I I I know that

What commercialization...

 stated basically that by woman's behavior ye shall know them that is any woman showing disrespect to northern soldiers could be treated as a prostitute Butler seemed to be legalizing sexual assault President

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 You know, I never was a wife or a nun, or a prostitute even, really, not really. Nobody ever asked who I wanted to be. They just told me, and if you legalize it,

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