It is random, arbitrary and capricious and disproportionately meted out to minorities and poor people, race plays such a huge role. Helen Prejean More Quotes by Helen Prejean More Quotes From Helen Prejean 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. Helen Prejean our-societypeopleyears To err is human, to forgive is divine. Helen Prejean forgivenesschristianmistake Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even. Helen Prejean timebabydeath Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers. Helen Prejean painselfwitty He said it emphatically. Helen Prejean top-news You are a son of God, christ is with you. What is being done to you is wrong. I will be there for you. Helen Prejean us-news It's part of the attitude here. You committed a crime so you must always suffer. Helen Prejean us-news I feel like I've seen the movies now. Helen Prejean us-news And I see that happening. Helen Prejean us-news He connected hope to the way Jesus talked about the kingdom of God, of our collaboration with people who are suffering now, that's what Pope Francis is doing. One week after he became Pope, he was in a prison washing the feet of prisoners. It's solidarity with all human beings. Helen Prejean us-news He'd do it himself if he could, he'd drive up the Popemobile to death row. Helen Prejean us-news You are freeze-framed in an act. And the state is freeze-framed in killing. Helen Prejean us-news It's an affirmation of her humanity and her potential. Helen Prejean us-news Dead Man Walking, he said it emphatically. He said no one deserves to suffer like they did. Helen Prejean technology I walked in the room and I looked at his face and I remembered, 'Oh my God, he's so young.' Which he is, i sensed he was very respectful, and I felt it was pretty easy to establish a rapport. Helen Prejean technology Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons. Helen Prejean dignitymoralgovernmentcountry The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go. Helen Prejean understandyouimportantmatter
