Quote by Jesse Jackson
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonme

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. – Jesse Jackson

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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world… learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate. – Jesse Jackson

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Learning
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Weve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are. – Jesse Jackson

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Government
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People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in peoples home lives, domestic stuff. – Jesse Jackson

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Home
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Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. – William Ernest Hocking

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Law never made men a whit more just. – Henry David Thoreau

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Justice & Law

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. – Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations

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Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench. – Author Unknown

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Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, theres been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. – Andrew Motion

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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. – Robert Frost

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For the first time, I lived alone… in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless. – Patty Duke

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As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. – Swami Vivekananda

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