Obadiah Holmes Quotes & Sayings

The racial terrorism of lynchings in many ways created the modern death penalty. America's embrace of speedy executions was, in part, an attempt to redirect the violent energies of lynching while ensuring white southerners that Black men would still pay the ultimate price. — Bryan Stevenson

I have no interest in the justification of circumstances or producing guilt in others by assigning obligation. I am interested in providing an opportunity for people to experience mastery in the matter of their own lives and the experience of satisfaction, fulfillment, and aliveness. These are a function of the self as context rather than thing, the self as space rather than location or position, the self as cause rather than self at effect. — Werner Erhard

Pandora, possessed by the unleashed contents of her box. — Salman Rushdie

I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation. — Ingvar Kamprad

When ego trumps fidelity, the end result is inevitably betrayal - betrayal of country, of kith or kin, or of self. — Brian Andrews