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Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude. 

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. 

—Mignon McLaughlin

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The most authentic sign we can give ourselves that we have actually begun the process of forgiveness is our prayer. This is true even if the only prayer we can say is to ask to want to forgive. In the beginning it may be too much for us even to pray for the person who hurt us. Perhaps all we can do is to pray for ourselves — to pray that for our own sake we may begin the process of forgiveness.

—William A. Meninger

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When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

—Catherine Ponder

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Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

—Charlotte Bronte

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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

—George Eliot

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I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

—Bill Maher

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If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic schoolchildren would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

—Lenny Bruce

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Just as the prisoner was being strapped into the electric chair, the priest said, "Son, is there anything I can do for you?" The prisoner said, "Yeah, when they pull the switch, hold my hand.

—Dick Gregory

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Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

—Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

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Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

—Barbara Neely

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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. 

—Elbert Hubbard

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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.

—Albert Einstein

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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

—Ellen Key

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