The more you look at the death penalty, that's where you see that we're actually not killing the worst of the worst. We're killing the poorest of the poor. Where actually one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed is how many resources they have to defend themselves.
Shane ClaiborneIf you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.
Shane ClaiborneI moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went to study sociology. I like how Karl Barth said we have to read the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other so that our faith doesn't just become a ticket into heaven and a license to ignore the world around us.
Shane ClaiborneThe more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.
Shane Claiborne