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Quote by Ralph Nader
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. – Ralph Nader

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The democracy gap in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the least worst every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the least worst gets worse. – Ralph Nader

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Americas health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. – Walter Cronkite

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I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul. – John B. S. Haldane

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The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy. – Paul Gillmor

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Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. – Charles Simmons

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