Perceived Innocence Quotes

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?

Pardons are risky …. They inevitably create at least some perception that there's some guilt. Why pardon if somebody isn't going to ultimately get convicted?

From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much more sexy and experienced than he was and that everything he did like hugging and kissing and petting was simply what I made him feel like doing out of the blue, he couldn’t help it and didn’t know how it came about. Now I saw he had only been pretending all this time to be so innocent.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions