![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.](/fotos/dc/dc16a8f559d602c2676352793b59bebd.webp)
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.
I don't want a moratorium on ...
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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.
I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.
Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.
