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Anthony Ray Hinton
American
Author
Born:
Jun 1
,
1956
Believe
Death
Me
Mother
World
You
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Bitterness kills the soul.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Soul
Bitterness
I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Death
Hope
Better
Will
Believe
Penalty
Death Penalty
Truly
Than
America
Away
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.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Me
Respect
Heart
Took
Say
No Respect
Prosecutors
Because
Judges
Years
Malice
I want people to realize that we can teach hate, but we also can teach love.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Love
Hate
People
Also
Want
Realize
Teach
I was put on death row because of hate.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Death
Hate
Put
Because
Row
What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?
Anthony Ray Hinton
Death
People
Innocent
Sit
Innocent People
System
Kind
Years
Row
When it seems like the whole world thinks you're bad, it's hard to hang on to your goodness.
Anthony Ray Hinton
You
World
Goodness
Bad
Seems
Like
Hang
Your
Hard
Whole
Thinks
I was born with a mother who loved me unconditionally and with a sense of humor.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Me
Sense Of Humor
Mother
Humor
Sense
Born
Unconditionally
Loved
Who
Believe me, when you're sitting on death row, you want the appeal process to take time; as long as you're going through it, you're going to be alive.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Death
Time
Me
You
Long
Believe
Alive
Through
Take
Sitting
Going
Want
Process
Appeal
Row
The State of Alabama let me down tremendously.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Me
Down
State
Tremendously
Alabama
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?'
Anthony Ray Hinton
Time
Me
You
Yourself
Other
Lying
Out
Run
Wow
Witnessed
Said
Going
Happen
Ask
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.
Anthony Ray Hinton
God
Me
You
Will
Destroy
High
He
Know
Looks
Want
Low
Defend
Defended
They took my 30s, my 40s, my 50s, but what they couldn't take was my joy. I couldn't do nothing about the years, but I could control my joy... I kept a smile on my face; I kept love in my heart.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Love
Smile
Heart
Joy
Face
Control
Nothing
Took
About
Could
Take
Years
Kept
I forgive because not to forgive would only hurt me.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Me
Hurt
Would
Only
Because
Forgive
Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Waiting
Live
Spending
Way
Days
Die
Your
Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Death
Day
Every Day
Dinner
Breakfast
Every
Lunch
Same
Row
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.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Me
You
Remember
Took
Know
Spoon
How
Get
Fork
Forks
While
Little
Use
Little While
Death row prisoners face enormous challenges in finding lawyers who will assist them.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Death
Challenges
Will
Face
Enormous
Finding
Lawyers
Prisoners
Them
Who
Row
Assist
I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Death
Me
Penalty
Because
Death Penalty
End
Trying
Much
Really
Means
Bring
I never used a gun in my life.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Life
Gun
My Life
Never
Used
I don't believe that man was built to be put in a 5-by-7 for 30 years and have his sanity when he comes out if he doesn't find something to escape.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Man
Believe
Out
Find
Something
He
Put
Built
His
Years
Escape
Sanity
Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Beautiful
Mind
Control
Able
Beautiful Thing
Being
Your
Thing
You get to know everyone on death row. You become friends with them and their families. I met some great guys. Everyone regrets what they did.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Death
Great
You
Met
Become
Everyone
Some
Guys
Know
Friends
Families
Get
Did
Them
Regrets
Row
When you have a death row case, you have to make 100 percent sure you have the right person. But these DAs in the state of Alabama are racist.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Death
You
Right Person
State
Case
Percent
Make
Sure
Person
Alabama
Right
Row
My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Mother
Other
Like
Passed
Blow
I cannot hate, because my Bible teaches me not to hate.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Me
Bible
Hate
Because
Cannot
Teaches
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