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“You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose those, naturally, you try to compensate by other stimulations, by very loud noises, or by bright lights or drugs.”

Ifs Way Trying Light Loses Loss Cities Risk New York Drug Perception Noise Sensual Loud New York City Stimulation Milky Way Bright Lights Loud Noises

Author:Rene Dubos

“I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.”

Wells Country Memories Cities Drug Machines Determined Ghost Teeth Knees Sunshine Chicago Telephones My Sunshine

Author:Conor Oberst

“The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.”

Source: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays

“During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.”

“My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also for the discipline of it. He taught us how to shoot when we were young. He opened up karate schools in the worst parts of the city, on purpose, and then he would systematically clean out a three-block radius, all of the gang-bangers and drug dealers and everybody of nefarious character.”

Character School Young Purpose Three Father Cities Worst Military Taught Discipline Drug Weapons Clean Block Gang Dealer Taught Us Specialists Karate Affinity Drug Dealers Radius

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“I grew up in Baltimore which is a one of the biggest drug cities. I've seen a lot of drugs... so it was always around me, but I never really indulged in those type of activities. I never used drugs in my life and I was blessed enough with the wisdom and the strength to move forward.”

Enough Moving Used Cities Grew Type Drug Activity Grew Up Blessed Moving Forward Baltimore

Author:Mario

“Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our deathtrap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept a good deal of murder as inevitable simply because it is done to make or save money.”

Done House Deals Cities Accepting Study Drug Murder Environmental Inevitable Pollution Lungs Automobile Saving Money Poisonous Rotting

Author:Joy Davidman

“From Sunbelt to Rustbelt, North to South, East to West, once-thriving cities have become little more than drug-infested slums.”

Littles Cities Drug West South East Slums

Author:Gerald Celente

“Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.”

“It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic .”

Cities Drug Towns Small Town County Suburbs Epidemics Ohio

Author:Mike DeWine

“Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.”

Knows Country Poor Cities Class Middle Drug Drinking Middle Class

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“The Affordable Care Act is a huge problem. [Repealing the ACA is] going to have huge implications. We have millennials that live in Boston that are on their parents' health insurance. The businesses have hired them and have been able to hire more people because they have been able to be on their own health insurance. We have seniors in our city who have preexisting conditions, or something called a "donut hole," which is a prescription drug [gap] in Medicare. Whatever changes they make could have detrimental effects on people's health care, but also on the economy.”

“When you come out the streets. I ain't braggin'. I never sold drugs but I kept a joint on me. I got arrested plenty of times back when I was a juvenile. Not saying I was a bad ass. I was a juvenile coming' out to the city, to do MC conventions that Mike & Dave was doing. I had to hold myself down. Now I put the gat up. I chill. I pay more attention to life.”

Pay Cities Attention Streets Drug Ass Plenty Coming Out Conventions Bad Ass Chill Mike Joints Arrested Back When Dave Juvenile

Author:Rakim

“When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.”

Thinking Giving Mind Littles Use Feelings Cities Brain Study Fool Needed Drug Mountain Encouragement Leaving Ancient Site Typewriters Pitiful Buffalo Visualizing Drug Taking

Book:Education of a Wandering Man

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.”

Men Needs May Cities Feet Crime Possibility Lovers Drug Lifetime Environmental Leaving Surface Boundaries Wilderness Refuge Psychoanalysis Defenders Asphalt

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire