#penalty

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#free speech #our #penalty #period #poems

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. ↗

— George Ryan

#death #death penalty #error #i #margin

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#adopt #again #bring #citizens #constitution

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states. ↗

— Burke Marshall

#american #concept #death #death penalty #different

Staying out of the penalty box will really help. ↗

— Bobby Orr

#help #out #penalty #really #staying

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

#became #been #death #death penalty #had

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#city #fly #getting #home #id

I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be. ↗

— Alan Lewis

#could #crucial #every #give #i

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#country #death #death penalty #life #penalty