Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the… — George Ryan Copy Share Image
Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It’s like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can’t choose where they’re going to land.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I fully share the Congress's objective of promoting nonproliferation and combating Iran's efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missile… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it,… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal… — V. R. Krishna Iyer Copy Share Image
Teresa Lewis, the only woman on death row in Virginia, says she doesn't deserve the death penalty because she only hired the… — Dennis Miller 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… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
The more you look at the death penalty, that's where you see that we're actually not killing the worst of the worst.… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
According to the L.A. Times, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to take "a harder stance" on the death penalty. What's a harder… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Look how in societies today where Islam is dominant and prominent, how any non-Islamic person, whether it's a Christian or an apostate… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by… — Zoe Valdes Copy Share Image
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and deserves the… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those… — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
We as the Church need to express wherever appropriate and wherever possible our stance against the death penalty. We need to talk… — Gabino Zavala Copy Share Image
It doesn't make any difference if you are in favor of capital punishment or if you are opposed to capital punishment. The… — Gerald Kogan Copy Share Image
The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
He has an awareness of what's happening around him on the edge of the box which is better than most players. As… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
The Russians are succeeding in continuing their dismemberment of Ukraine, they're succeeding in exerting enormous influence in the Middle East, which they… — John McCain Copy Share Image
There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
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