If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises. — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“no government is ever innocent enough or wise enough or just enough to lay claim to so absolute a power as death. (p. 21)” — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“The prospect that a person will be killed according to the policy he promulgates prompts the [priest] to urge clemency, an incomprehensible position logically.” — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
Once you inject fear into a society of people, they become more and more afraid because they don't cross over the neighbourhoods and the… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“Nonviolence and nonaggression are generally regarded as interchangeable concepts - King and Gandhi frequently used them that way - but nonviolence, as employed by… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
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