Carl Hart Quotes
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Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians accountable, we contribute to harm.
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If you are funding researchers to look primarily for pathology, not surprisingly, that is what they are going to find and report on.
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Drug reformers need to be hyper-vigilant. I understand that when you've been oppressed so long, so thirsty for truth, that when someone comes along and gives you a sip of water, you think that they're the savior. But in that water there may be cyanide.
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Politicians move when the public requires them to move.
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When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.
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I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.
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My kids are really into social justice.