Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes

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Anthony Ray Hinton

Profession : Author

Birth : June 1, 1956

Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.

Anthony Ray Hinton

I am a joyful person.

Anthony Ray Hinton

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

Anthony Ray Hinton

I shouldn't have sat on death row 30 years. All they had to do was test the gun. But when you think you are high and mighty and you're above the law, you don't have to answer to nobody, but I've got news for you.

Anthony Ray Hinton

There was a time I thought I'd never see the sun again.

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I was put on death row because of hate.

Anthony Ray Hinton

In the South, people in power feel they don't have to answer to no one.

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Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long.

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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

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?'

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I just didn't believe the God that I served would allow me to die for something I didn't do.

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When it seems like the whole world thinks you're bad, it's hard to hang on to your goodness.

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I've seen hate at its worse. What would it profit me to hate?

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Death row was the only place where I never witnessed racism. We all went to bed with a death sentence on our heads and woke up that way. We had to become each other's support system.

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What do you say to a person who is going to their death? Normally, we would just say, 'Hang in there, keep your hope up,' because there is hope until the very last second.

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Death row prisoners face enormous challenges in finding lawyers who will assist them.

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Hatred is nothing but a form of cancer, and it will eat you up.

Anthony Ray Hinton

I'm just trying to be a little tiny light in God's world.

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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

My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.

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