The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Despair was a choice. Hatred was a choice. Anger was a choice. I still had choices, and that knowledge rocked me. I may not have had as many Lester had, but I still had some choices. I could choose to give up or to hang on. Hope was a choice. Faith was a choice. And more than anything else, love was a choice. Compassion was a choice.”
“It all matters. How we live matters. Do we choose love or do we choose hate? Do we help or do we harm? Because there is no way to know the exact second your life changes forever. You can only begin to know that moment by looking in the rearview mirror. And trust me when I tell you when you never, ever see it coming.”
“Every single one wants to matter. We want our lives, and our stories and the choices we made or didn’t make to matter.”
“We need to think about the fact that we are all more than the worst thing we have done.”
“I was born with the same gift from God we are all born with – the impulse to reach out and lessen the suffering of another human being. It was a gift, and we each had a choice whether to use this gift or not.”
“Everything, I realized, is a choice. And spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.”
“He was a poor man in a criminal justice system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent.”
“We have to make every ending be a happy ending.”
“No baby is born a murderer. No toddler dreams of being on death row someday. Every killer on death row was taught to be a killer—by parents, by a system, by the brutality of another brutalized person—but no one was born a killer.”
“Martin Luther King once said, “A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.”
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