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Helen Prejean has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is.…
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If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken…
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Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.
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The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies,…
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When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys…
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If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not…
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Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which…
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The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and…
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I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society,…
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Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?
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I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it… I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it.…
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I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I…
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I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
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