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People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.

Helen Prejean

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Describing her opposition to the death penalty.

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Prejean, Helen. Quoted in "Sister Sympathy." Written by Sue Helpren. The New York Times Magazine, 9 May 1993.

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Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because, in committing it, the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. London: Joseph Johnson, 1796, letter 19.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, edited by Tone Brekke and Jon Mee. Oxford University Press, 2009, letter 19.

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The culture of life means respect for nature and protection of God's work of creation. In a special way it means respect for human life from the first moment of conception until its natural end.

Pope John Paul II

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Pope John Paul II. Speech on the occasion of the eighth world youth day. Farewell ceremony. 15 Aug. 1993, International Airport of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.

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Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.

Elizabeth Fry

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Fry, Elizabeth. Note found among her papers. c. 1848.

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Fry, Elizabeth. Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry, edited by Katharine Fry and Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ch. 10.

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The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.

Thurgood Marshall

Furman v. Georgia

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Marshall, Thurgood. United States, Supreme Court. Furman v. Georgia. United States Reports, vol. 408, 29 June 1972, pp. 238-250. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/408/238/.

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