I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend it. I can write a compl….

Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say….

Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for tr….

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking..

In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I wou….

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice..

If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as w….

There are spaces of sorrow only God can touch..

I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it… I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed from being a nun who only pra….

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives w….

Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens t….

The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end, when….

When you try, God is there and you get the grace you need to get you through..

The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indi….

Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers..

When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek to….

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

I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least for a while, and there is noth….

Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all..

The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where ….

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?.