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Top 20 Helen Prejean Quotes (2025 Update)

Helen Prejean Quote: “The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indivisible dignity of each human person made in the image of God.”

1. “The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indivisible dignity of each human person made in the image of God.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “It is easy to forgive the innocent. It is the guilty who test our morality. People are more than the worst thing they have ever done.”

2. “It is easy to forgive the innocent. It is the guilty who test our morality. People are more than the worst thing they have ever done.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “Mercy is “stronger and more God-like than vengeance”.”

3. “Mercy is “stronger and more God-like than vengeance”.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “The death penalty is a poor person’s issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end, when the deck is cast out, it is the poor who are selected to die in this country.”

4. “The death penalty is a poor person’s issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end, when the deck is cast out, it is the poor who are selected to die in this country.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.”

5. “If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “There are spaces of sorrow only God can touch.”

6. “There are spaces of sorrow only God can touch.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.”

7. “I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “When you try, God is there and you get the grace you need to get you through.”

8. “When you try, God is there and you get the grace you need to get you through.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “Once you inject fear into a society of people, they become more and more afraid because they don’t cross over the neighbourhoods and the only information they get about other people is through the media.”

9. “Once you inject fear into a society of people, they become more and more afraid because they don’t cross over the neighbourhoods and the only information they get about other people is through the media.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “I watch what I’m doing to see what I believe.”

10. “I watch what I’m doing to see what I believe.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.”

11. “If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.”

12. “Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can.”

13. “Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.”

14. “The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.”

15. “Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.”

16. “We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time – weeks, months, years, decades even.”

17. “Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time – weeks, months, years, decades even.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people’s lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.”

18. “It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people’s lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “My wife, she’s a good Christian woman, and she supports the death penalty, and believe me, you can’t find a better Christian.”

19. “My wife, she’s a good Christian woman, and she supports the death penalty, and believe me, you can’t find a better Christian.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “I’m taking a fresh look at the American Dream and who gets to live it and who doesn’t.”

20. “I’m taking a fresh look at the American Dream and who gets to live it and who doesn’t.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “I guess when you’re not awake, you’re not awake. Waking up to the suffering of people who are different from us is a long process, and has a whole lot to do with what community we belong to and whose consciousness and life experiences impact our own on a daily basis. I have a hunch I’m going to be waking up until the moment I die.”

21. “I guess when you’re not awake, you’re not awake. Waking up to the suffering of people who are different from us is a long process, and has a whole lot to do with what community we belong to and whose consciousness and life experiences impact our own on a daily basis. I have a hunch I’m going to be waking up until the moment I die.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “Well, ma’am that’s hard to do because Vernon Harvey keeps holding these press conferences, mouthin’ off about how he can’t wait to see me fry. Personally, I think the guy is his own worst enemy. He just needs to let it go, man. The girl’s dead now, and there’s nothin’ he can do to bring her back. Even watchin’ me fry ain’t gonna bring her back, but he won’t let it go and he’s just makin’ himself miserable, in my opinion.”

22. “Well, ma’am that’s hard to do because Vernon Harvey keeps holding these press conferences, mouthin’ off about how he can’t wait to see me fry. Personally, I think the guy is his own worst enemy. He just needs to let it go, man. The girl’s dead now, and there’s nothin’ he can do to bring her back. Even watchin’ me fry ain’t gonna bring her back, but he won’t let it go and he’s just makin’ himself miserable, in my opinion.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “I cannot believe in a God who metes out hurt for hurt, pain for pain, torture for torture. Nor do I believe that God invests human representatives with such power to torture and kill. The paths of history are stained with the blood of those who have fallen victim to “God’s Avengers.” Kings and Popes and military generals and heads of state have killed, claiming God’s authority and God’s blessing. I do no believe in such a God.”

23. “I cannot believe in a God who metes out hurt for hurt, pain for pain, torture for torture. Nor do I believe that God invests human representatives with such power to torture and kill. The paths of history are stained with the blood of those who have fallen victim to “God’s Avengers.” Kings and Popes and military generals and heads of state have killed, claiming God’s authority and God’s blessing. I do no believe in such a God.”

— Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean Quote: “I can’t accept that any group of human beings is trustworthy enough to mete out so ultimate and irreversible a punishment as death.”

24. “I can’t accept that any group of human beings is trustworthy enough to mete out so ultimate and irreversible a punishment as death.”

— Helen Prejean

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