Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

I believe in giving people a second chance.

A wonderful quality about America is that we love redemption stories. We're quick to lash out and assign blame, but we also draw from deep reservoirs of forgiveness.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.

Mel Gibson doesn't need your judgment, he needs your prayers.

I don't believe in writing people off.

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

Your majesty ... give the assassins money and send them away somewhere to America, and write a manifesto starting with the words: 'but I say to you, love your enemies,'....from these words, like a flood, goodness and love would pour forth over Russia.

The abolition of death penalty would give more opportunities for pastoral work with those who have stumbled and for the latter to repent. It is also evident that punishment by death cannot be reformatory; it also makes misjudgement irreparable

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages. Nations had risen against nations, employing the subtlest devices of mechanism and mind to waste, and excruciate, and overthrow. The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other. Wheel within wheel, the vast machine was instinct with the restless spirit of desolation.

There's gotta be a human being in everybody, regardless of what they do or what people think they did.

I believe in forgiveness.

The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.

I have heard it said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have hurt it. I think a further measure is how it treats those who deeply disappoint it.

I see the good in people, and I believe in forgiveness.

I think I am a living example of Modi's capacity to forgive.

I believe in second chances.

My faith tells me everybody should have second chances.