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Quotes About Contraband

I smuggle, not snuggle.
~ Chuck Wendig
Butler used slaveholders' own insistence that slaves were legal property to release slaves from owners' grasps and illustrated how war could create possibilities unavailable in peacetime. The phenomenon of the Civil War contraband camp was born.
~ Chandra Manning
By war's end, well over 400,000—somewhere between 12 and 15 percent of the entire U.S. slave population according to the 1860 census—had taken refuge behind Union lines, most of them in contraband camps.
~ Chandra Manning
These are the days of bootleg love.
~ James Thurber
It was never the case that prisoners were simply allowed unlimited parcels - books or otherwise... It would be a logistical impossibility to search them all, and they would provide an easy route for illegal materials.
~ Chris Grayling
Increasing detection and enforcement at points of entry means hiring new Customs officers and purchasing more equipment to screen vehicles for contraband.
~ Michael Caputo
Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.
~ Malcolm X
The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The human anal cavity has traditionally been a smuggler favorite for most of our existence on Earth.
~ Peter F. Hamilton