Believe Quote by Helen Prejean

Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its…

— Helen Prejean

When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not…

— Helen Prejean

people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives

— Helen Prejean

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often…

— Helen Prejean

Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for…

— Helen Prejean

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it…

— Helen Prejean

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

— Helen Prejean

There are spaces of sorrow only God can touch.

— Helen Prejean

I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least…

— Helen Prejean

“The prospect that a person will be killed according to the policy he promulgates prompts the [priest] to urge clemency, an incomprehensible position logically.”

— Helen Prejean

Once you inject fear into a society of people, they become more and more afraid because they don't cross over the neighbourhoods and the…

— Helen Prejean

“Nonviolence and nonaggression are generally regarded as interchangeable concepts - King and Gandhi frequently used them that way - but nonviolence, as employed by…

— Helen Prejean