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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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Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.
— Helen Prejean
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True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
— C.S. Lewis
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By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of…
— David Truman
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just…
— Joseph Priestley
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Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.
— Peter Kreeft
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But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥
— Everett Ruess
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Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours…
— Clara Schumann
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Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
— Christina Stead
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At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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