American - Author | June 1, 1956 -
The State of Alabama let me down tremendously.
Anthony Ray Hinton
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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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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.
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Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.
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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.
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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.
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They took my 30s, my 40s, my 50s, but what they couldn't take was my joy. I couldn't do nothing about the years, but I could control my joy... I kept a smile on my face; I kept love in my heart.
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I was put on death row because of hate.
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I forgive because not to forgive would only hurt me.
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For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.
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Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.
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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.
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