Kathleen Parker
Journalist
"For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed."
Innocent Person quotes
Innocent Person
17 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."
May Sarton
Poet
"I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face."
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