"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."

-- Helen Prejean

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“If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.”
“I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.”
“I get mail from people all over the world now from people who tell me that they didn't really understand Down syndrome, but because of me they have read about it and studied it and now they know a lot more about it.”

Source : "Actors with Down syndrome in more films, TV; 'Glee' star Lauren Potter says 'we're just like anybody else'" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2012.
“Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.”
“I started writing songs at age 15.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.”
“I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.”
“The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.”

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