Quotes by Helen Prejean - Page 1

To err is human, to forgive is divine.
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Forgiveness
Christian
Educational
Mistake
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There are spaces of sorrow only God can touch.
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Space
Sorrow
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Mercy is "stronger and more God-like than vengeance".
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Mercy
Stronger
Vengeance
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Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?
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Death Penalty
Deserve
Dies
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people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives
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Done
People
Worst
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Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.
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Pain
Self
Witty
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When you try, God is there and you get the grace you need to get you through.
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Grace
Needs
Trying
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We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.
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Death
Men
Helen
Worst
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Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.
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Love
Best Love
Garden
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I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.
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Government
Citizens
Speaks Out
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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 just individuals but governments as well.
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Government
Believe
Punishment
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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 of its citizens to kill.
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Government
Citizens
Death Penalty
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Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
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Allowing
Citizens
Dignity
Moral
Moral Values
Persons
Compromises
Conceived
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The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.
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Eventually
Important Thing
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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. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.
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Fitness Motivational
Important
Needs
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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 lives often come from lives with broken promises.
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Broken
Faithful
People
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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 only information they get about other people is through the media.
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Fear
Media
People
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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 the indivisible dignity of each human person made in the image of God.
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Compassion
Heart
Religious
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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, in the end, when the deck is cast out, it is the poor who are selected to die in this country.
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Country
Goes On
Issues
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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. I changed from being a nun who only prayed for the suffering world to a woman with my sleeves rolled up, living my prayer.
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Prayer
Suffering
World
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Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even.
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Death
Time
Baby
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Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can.
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Silence
Waiting
Writing
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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, at least for a while, and there is nothing I can do about it. Maybe, in time- after how many executions? - people will come to realize the futility of randomly selecting a few people to die each year.
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Our Society
People
Years
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In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government--which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.
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Government
Feelings
Sorting Out
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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 choose and comprehend it. I can write a complete sentence and punctuate it correctly. If I need help, I can call on judges, attorneys, educators, ministers. I wonder what I would be like if I had grown up without such protections and supports. What cracks would have turned up in my character?
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Book
Character
Writing
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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 do not seek to avenge their deaths. Black, Hispanic, or poor families who have a loved one murdered not only don't expect the district attorney's office to pursue the death penalty -which, of course, is both costly and time consuming- but are surprised when the case is prosecuted at all.
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Cities
Color
Office
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