People Are More Than The Worst Thing

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.

Remorse Presupposes Enough Self-forgetfulness To Feel The Pain Ofothers.

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?

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.

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.