Allowing Quote by Helen Prejean

“Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.” quote by Helen Prejean — Download Open image

“Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.”

Helen Prejean

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“no government is ever innocent enough or wise enough or just enough to lay claim to so absolute a power as death. (p. 21)”

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