Oppose Death Penalty Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy. — Robert Pinsky

I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25. — Bobby Darin

You will reap tomorrow what you are sowing today — Sunday Adelaja

The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke. — Edward Albee

Last night I saw you in my sleep:
And how your charm of face was changed!
I asked, 'Some love, some faith you keep?'
You answered, 'Faith gone, love estranged.'
Whereat I woke--- a twofold bliss:
Waking was one, but next there came
This other:"Though I felt, for this,
My heart break, I loved on the same. — Robert Browning

As such, we must oppose torturing human beings for the same reason we oppose "choice" in abortion rights, because torture dehumanizes both the tortured and the torturer. We ought to be those insisting that capital punishment, where it exists, is not discriminatory against the poor or racial minorities and that it not exist as part of a system in which innocent persons are mistakenly executed. A death penalty that exempts the white and the affluent, while putting to death those without the power to evade such justice, is hardly what God set forth in the covenant with Noah or in the sword-wielding delegated authority to Caesar to punish evildoers. And, even short of the death penalty, we should care about impartiality before the law, in the making and in the enforcement of laws for all persons, regardless of race or ethnicity or background. — Russell D. Moore

Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London. — Noel Gallagher

You did not disturb me, said the pegasus. I disturbed myself, that I might speak to you. — Robin McKinley

Everybody was at the top of their game at that point, in the early '70s. — Alice Cooper

We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life. — Joseph Fiorenza

For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this change in policy could lead to further declines in these wild stocks. — Norm Dicks

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law. — Goldwin Smith

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

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. — Remy De Gourmont

My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty ... because it's the law. — Tim Kaine

Maybe I don't understand love because no one who has said they loved me has ever put me first. I've always wanted to be loved, — Joelle Charbonneau

My hope is that after you read Imprinted Wisdom, you will be able to see your blessings, to count more of them that you already have. Realize your thoughts touch holy ground. Action with compassion for others will heal all your sorrow. And prayer will lift your veil of tears. Give more of everything than you take. Know that the true spirit of God lies within your heart. — Catherine Nagle

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. — Cesare Pavese