"If we believe that murder is wrong and……" — Helen Prejean
"If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well."
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Helen Prejean
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22 Quotes by Helen Prejean
Helen Prejean has 22 quotes on this site.
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The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that…
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If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People…
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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…
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When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed,…
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Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less…
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The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human…
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I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in…
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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…
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I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any…
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Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of…
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More Admissible Quotes
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one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are…
— Unknown Author
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All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
— Unknown Author
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I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on…
— Henry Sidgwick
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The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should…
— Max Born
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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.
— Clarence Darrow
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Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces…
— Robert Briffault
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Education is a danger... At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissible. Every educated person is…
— Martin Bormann
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As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed…
— Ambrose Bierce
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One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.
— Robert Breault
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You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows…
— Gore Vidal
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To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of…
— Alfred Adler
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