Innocent Quotes

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Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available. — Andrew Vachss
A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America. — William Lacy Clay, Jr.
Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their day in court in order to argue their… — Al Sharpton
When a mother or father is willing to pay smugglers and risk the lives of their own children by sending them on a dangerous journey… — Al Sharpton
Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be. — Carolyn Haywood
Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have… — Max Heindel
The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from… — Oliver Ellsworth
Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims. — King Felipe VI
The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if… — Richard LaGravenese
How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more… — Richard LaGravenese
Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building.… — Peter B. Lewis
Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to… — Robert Shapiro
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way… — Fred Woodworth
Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long… — Jane Howard
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. — Lord Salisbury
Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin. — Eason Jordan
We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price… — Bill Williams
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of… — Charles Lawrence
I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it. — Pontius Pilate
The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have… — Jerry Costello
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life… — George Mason
Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news… — Mark Kennedy
The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that… — Robert Casey
The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousands of innocent people, forcing Iraqis to live in… — Tim Murphy
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to… — Ernest Istook

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