A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. — Jesse Jackson. American Baptist minister, activist, and politician (born 1941) Justice, Life & Death, Morality
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer, but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.