“So many of us have become afraid and angry. We’ve become so fearful and vengeful that we’ve thrown away children, discarded the disabled, and sanctioned the imprisonment of the sick and the weak—not because they are a threat to public safety or beyond rehabilitation but because we think it makes us seem tough, less broken. I thought of the victims of violent crime and the survivors of murdered loved ones, and how we’ve pressured them to recycle their pain and anguish and give it back to the offenders we prosecute. I thought of the many ways we’ve legalized vengeful and cruel punishments, how we’ve allowed our victimization to justify the victimization of others. We’ve submitted to the harsh instinct to crush those among us whose brokenness is most visible. But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.” FearJusticeMercyAngerPrisonInjusticePunishmentBrokennessJustice SystemVengefulness Book:Just Mercy Source: Just Mercy
“A merciful heart beats contently stronger than many vengeful ones” HeartWisdomStrongWords Of WisdomBeatsMercyStrongerRevengeContentmentMercifulHeartsOneContentManyVengefulBeatAvengingVengefulness Author:Munia Khan
“Revenge is hollow and insatiable. It never satisfies; it never heals. It leaves us remorseful or hungry for more.” RegretRevengeVengeanceRemorseHollowUnethicalRevenge QuotesVengefulnessBitterness And HatredUnsatisfying Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman
“[The archbishop’s court] sentenced him to the loss of his prebend and all other revenues for two years, with the profits to be distributed to the poor at the king’s discretion, to a public whipping in the presence of the judge he had insulted, and possibly to one or two years’ banishment. Henry [II] was outraged by the leniency.” LawHistoryHumourHistoricalPunishmentHarshHenry IiVengefulness Book:Thomas Becket Source: Thomas Becket