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Leonard Peltier has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act.…
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To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin…
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The FBI has always supported big business and big government.
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The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution…
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No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in…
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Justice is not a flexible tool. Unless we all do our part to ensure that justice is applied equally to all human…
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We need to do more than just what is right. We need to join together and right what is wrong.
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A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that…
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They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system.…
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In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate…
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Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices,…
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Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free.
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams…
— Ron Franscell
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Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not…
— Pope Pius IX
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The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all…
— Seneca the Younger
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I don't wanna die, I'm not gonna lie to you I admit that and I'm not asking for clemency, I'm not asking…
— Ted Bundy
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The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by…
— Henry McNeal Turner
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In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The…
— Octavius Winslow
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Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
— Claudius Claudianus
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Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.
— Saadi
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A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does…
— Edward Gibbon
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Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
— Camille Desmoulins
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