Anslinger's Quotes

#1. Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.

Harry J. Anslinger

#2. Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type ...

Harry J. Anslinger

#3. Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

William S. Burroughs

#4. Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

John Lubbock

#5. Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#6. There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

Harry J. Anslinger

#7. If you know what you want to do, you have the opportunity to become who you want.

Keely Barton

#8. Don't give up on the impossible before you try it.

Clarence Munn

#9. If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster of marijuana he would drop dead of fright.

Harry J. Anslinger

#10. You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother.

Harry J. Anslinger

#11. Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.

Harry J. Anslinger

#12. I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, 'the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,' and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

Tony Blair

#13. (Is this what we fled, when we left the ocean? Did we grow legs so we could run away?)

Cherie Priest

#14. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

C.P. Scott

#15. Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.

David Addington

#16. It is significant that racism is part of colonialism throughout the world; and it is no coincidence. Racism sums up and symbolizes the fundamental relation which unites colonialist and colonized.

Albert Memmi

#17. Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.

Harry J. Anslinger

#18. Every new friend, in your life is 1% success.

Deyth Banger

#19. Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.

Harry J. Anslinger

#20. Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men.

Harry J. Anslinger

#21. Write a daily gratitude.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. I've been in tankers for 50 years, and I like it. For me, it's still fun.

John Fredriksen

#23. The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.

Harry J. Anslinger

#24. Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.

Harry J. Anslinger