He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.