Desmond Tutu Quotes About Death Penalty
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The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
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I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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