Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes

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Anthony Ray Hinton

Profession : Author

Birth : June 1, 1956

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

Anthony Ray Hinton

It's hard to explain exactly what it feels like to be judged. There's a shame to it. Even when you know you're innocent. It still feels like you are coated in something dirty and evil.

Anthony Ray Hinton

For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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

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.

Anthony Ray Hinton

To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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

I want people to realize that we can teach hate, but we also can teach love.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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 Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.

Anthony Ray Hinton

For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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

Anthony Ray Hinton

I never used a gun in my life.

Anthony Ray Hinton

When the very people that you been taught to believe in - the police, the D.A., these are the people that are supposed to stand for justice - and when you know that they lied to you, it's hard for you to have trust in anybody.

Anthony Ray Hinton

Justice should be one of the things that's colorblind.

Anthony Ray Hinton

The state of Alabama can take my freedom, the state of Alabama can take my future, but the state of Alabama cannot take my joy.

Anthony Ray Hinton

I forgive because not to forgive would only hurt me.

Anthony Ray Hinton

America should be ashamed to say they have the best justice system in the world when, every day, race plays a part in who goes to prison, who don't go to prison.

Anthony Ray Hinton

A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.

Anthony Ray Hinton