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• ‟ I want you to know there is a God. He sits high, but he looks low. He will destroy, but yet he will defend - and he defended me.

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• ‟ I have no respect for the prosecutors, the judges. And I say that not with malice in my heart. I say it because they took 30 years from me.

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• ‟ I have a good sense of humour, and that's what kept me for the 30 years I was locked up.

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• ‟ You never think of your freedom until it's taken away from you, and once it's taken... So, it means everything to me. You couldn't put a price tag on it.

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• ‟ I've often thought books give you - put you in a world that you never thought you could go. And I often would say, I don't need to go to California. Give me a book that talks about California. And I can put it in my head and imagine what it looked like.

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• ‟ Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.

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• ‟ I was born with a mother who loved me unconditionally and with a sense of humor.

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• ‟ The State of Alabama let me down tremendously.

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• ‟ I witnessed other inmates' time run out, and I'd be lying if I said you don't ask yourself, 'Wow, is that going to happen to me?'

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• ‟ I forgive because not to forgive would only hurt me.

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• ‟ It took me a little while to remember how to use a fork. You know, we don't use forks in the penitentiary. You get a spoon.

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• ‟ I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

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• ‟ I just didn't believe the God that I served would allow me to die for something I didn't do.

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• ‟ Being on death row has taken so much from me as a human being.

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• ‟ I cannot hate, because my Bible teaches me not to hate.

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• ‟ I've seen hate at its worse. What would it profit me to hate?

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• ‟ To me, America need to clean up their own home before they tell another country about human rights. I'm a primary example. America don't care nothing about human rights.

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