"I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die."

-- George Ryan

#Errors Quotes #Guilt Quotes #Death Penalty Quotes

“You think you need me, little firecracker?â€ The gruff question travels all the way through me, and I have to press my thighs together to stop the tremor in me. â€œBaby, the way you need me can only barely cover half of the way I need you.â€ The unexpected sadness in his voice yanks my gaze back to his.”
“Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.”
“The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.”
“...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.”

Source : Pearl Cleage (2010). “Till You Hear from Me: A Novel”, p.161, One World/Ballantine
“Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.”
“The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this.”
“Scars are proof we can can survive”
“I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.”

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