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Penalties Quotes by Helen Prejean
- The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end,…
- When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek…
- The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indivisible dignity…
- I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least for…
More Penalties Quotes
- History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. — Lord Acton
- We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? — Brigitte Bardot
- I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row. — Gary Bauer
- Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties. — William S. Burroughs
- For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why?… — Albert Camus
- I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the… — Nick Cave
- Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death… — Yasser Arafat
- Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself — Jimmy Carter
- I have 3,000 penalty minutes. I don't need people dictating to me how to do my job. — Tie Domi
- If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll… — Bob Paisley
- In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military. — Douglas MacArthur