Quotes by Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean

Do they deserve to die?” but “Do we deserve to kill them?

Death Penalty

Deserve

Dies

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.

Citizens

Death Penalty

Government

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?

Book

Character

Writing

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.

Citizens

Government

Speaks Out

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.

Prayer

Suffering

World

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.

Our Society

People

Years

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.

Believe

Government

Punishment

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.

Broken

Faithful

People

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.

Feelings

Government

Sorting Out

Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.

Best Love

Garden

Love

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Believe

Best Love

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Christian

Cities

Citizens

Color

Compassion

Country

Death

Death Penalty

Deserve

Dies

Done

Faithful

Fear

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Fitness Motivational

Forgiveness

Garden

Goes On

Government

Grace

Heart

Helen

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Issues

Love

Media

Men

Mercy

Mistake

Needs

Office

Our Society

Pain

People

Prayer

Punishment

Religious

Self

Silence

Sorrow

Sorting Out

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Speaks Out

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Quotes by Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean

Do they deserve to die?” but “Do we deserve to kill them?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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