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Jack Kevorkian

"This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law."

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"This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law."

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"HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There arefour kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, andpraiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slainwhether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is foradvantage of the lawyers."

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"An older man who seems to be the leader of the Jesus Tshirt group says that the Bible forbids abortion in its commandment "Thou shall not kill.But being in the Bible Belt, people really know their Bible, and an older woman cites Exodus 21:22"23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies.Thus the Bible is making clear, that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life."

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"Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation, manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people."

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"Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares."
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"It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture."
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