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A Lesson Before Dying By: Ernest J. Gaines

A Lesson Before Dying By: Ernest J. Gaines. "Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”. “What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this .”.

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A Lesson Before Dying By: Ernest J. Gaines

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  1. A Lesson Before DyingBy: Ernest J. Gaines

  2. "Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”

  3. “What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.”

  4. "How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?"

  5. "I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be."

  6. “We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He was full of anger - and who could blame him? - but he was no fool. He needed me, and he wanted me here, if only to insult me.”

  7. “Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I’m still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?”

  8. "And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.”

  9. "There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past."

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

  11. "I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience."

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