Innocence Quotes
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It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the justice world, dealing with the death penalty and the Innocence Project, for characters that have a moral ambiguity, which we were both attracted to. It's the idea that everybody has their reasons. Whatever their actions are, whether you agree with them or not, you can understand why they're feeling that way, in terms of racism or even the death penalty.
Richard LaGravenese
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When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it...
William Faulkner
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The culture will not be able to persist in light of the rigid systems of its own innocence.
Michael Eric Dyson
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While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
Richard Jewell
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Evidently what in the fiction of the story serves in all innocence to reach the heart of the reader becomes an abomination for one who feels the echo of the facts she has really lived.
Elena Ferrante
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The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.
Michael Jackson