Quotes for All
We as the Church need to express wherever appropriate and wherever possible our stance against the death penalty. We need to talk about it. A lot of people don’t feel comfortable in doing this but I think we need to, as the Pope says, preach the whole gospel of life. Gabino Zavala
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don’t like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. Eliot Spitzer
With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don’t think it’s human to become an agent of the angel of death. Elie Wiesel
My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this. Dalai Lama
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation. Coretta Scott King
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life. Coretta Scott King
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics. Bryan Stevenson
I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we’re bringing forth, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, dealing with the fact that we have more people in jail, shamefully, than any other country on Earth, that I am against the death penalty, Secretary … Read more
I can’t talk politics with my cousin because he’s such a hypocrite. He’s against the death penalty and he hanged himself. Anthony Jeselnik
The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people. Angela Davis