"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal."

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Source : Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).

Elizabeth Fry

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“A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.”
“I didn't know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will show you 55,000 images of butter carvings, and they're extraordinary.”
“I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people ... I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from [the Native Americans] ... Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”
“The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.”
“This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.”

Source : "The Future Has Voted" by Rosario Dawson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.
“When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.”
“If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey, it is a first-rate remedy for cough and spitting of blood.”

Source : Nicholas Culpeper (1992). “Culpeper's Complete Herbal”
“Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America--and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.”

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