Dead Man Walking Quotes

What makes me think I wouldn't have been pregnant at seventeen? How law-abiding would I be? (1.42)

"My poor mother…""…Those poor children. Those poor parents. They must be in hell." (2.108, 116)

Prison is torture for him. He hates waiting while guards do the "count." He tells me how every inmate at every minute of the day has to be accounted for. (2.69)

Lloyd LeBlanc will berate me for not seeking him out at the beginning… (1.50)

In 1951 eight inmates, known as the "Heel-string Gang," inaugurated the first reform at Angola by slitting their Achilles tendons with razor blades rather than go to the "long line" in the fields,...

"I can't bear the thought that you would die without seeing one loving face. I will be the face of Christ for you. Just look at me." (2.103)

…to claim to be apolitical or neutral in the face of such injustices would be in actuality to uphold the status quo—a very political position to take, and on the side of the oppressors. (1.17)

…Jesus' challenge to the nonpoor, she emphasized, was to relinquish their affluence, and to share their resources with the dispossessed. (1.19)