“Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.”

“It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.”

“It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.”

“They're going to get the death penalty. They'll be strung up and made to be laughed at out in the streets and made examples of!”

“It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.”

“In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an ...”

“We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma ...”

“If only it were possible to love without injury fidelity isnt enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body...”

“She looks at the swings, and I can see shes imagining what theyd look like if the kids werent there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away,...”

“Are you good men and true?”

“The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance stupidity and perjury.”

“The jury passing on the prisoner's life May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.”