Against Death Penalty Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Cousin, Hypocrite, Politics

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2010

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• Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

  Alan Parker

  Death Penalty, Reason, Penalties

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• 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 Clinton is not, I think, as people become familiar with my ideas, we are going to do better and better.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

  Angela Davis

  America, Slavery, Death Penalty

  "We, Too, Are Abolitionists: Black History Month, Slavery and the Death Penalty" by Diann Rust-Tierney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2009.

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• Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.

  Hafez Ibrahim

  Rights, Death Penalty, Awareness

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• 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

  Powerful, Numbers, People

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• It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

  Russ Feingold

  Government, Years, Lasts

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• I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

  Jack Kemp

  Thinking, Punishment, Death Penalty

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• I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

  Janet Reno

  Guilt, Death Penalty, Vote

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• Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

  Philip Kaufman

  Thinking, Answers, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

  Ron White

  Trying, Death Penalty, States

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Church

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• For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.

  Tim Kaine

  Struggle, Catholic, Church

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not because they've thrown out their faith, but it's because of their faith they can't reconcile the death penalty with Jesus and their commitment to Jesus.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Jesus, Commitment

  Source: medium.com

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• My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Summer, Father, Son

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• Ajamu Baraka is a human rights advocate and an international human rights advocate, who's been defending racial justice, economic justice, worker justice, indigenous justice, and justice for black and brown people all over the world, and in the United States has been helping to lead the charge against the death penalty here, and is an extremely eloquent and empowering person. And one of the great things about running with him is that we speak to all of America.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Rights, America

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Atheist, Law, Atheism

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