June 15, 2012

I am convinced that most people do not grow up.  We find parking spaces and honor our credit cards.  We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up.  I think what we do is mostly grow old.  We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias. ~ Maya Angelou (from "Letter to My Daughter")

March 15, 2011

If you think any human system of justice is infallible, then you are ignorant.  If you think that no person has been falsely condemned to death, then you are naive.  If you think that one innocent person, ripped from their life and their passion and put to death at the hands of the state is in any way justifiable, then you are evil. ~ Joshua W. H. Steiner