I want to see the violence in Haiti stopped. Innocent people, innocent children are getting hurt and killed every day.
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JOSE SERRANO I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - m...
WYCLEF JEAN The children were crying and they were very afraid. These planes killed my relatives. We are poor an...
SADIA BIBI I want to say something. I just want to say how sorry I am that innocent people got hurt that night,
LIZZIE GRUBMAN We cannot accept what we see on our television every day of the bombing of innocent civilians. There...
BASHAR ASSAD Chavez always criticizes the US and talks about thousands of innocent people killed in Iraq, but wha...
GUSTAVO MARIN Children are the only innocent people in this world, they are the victims of our actions.
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB The violence hasn't stopped. There's always news of people getting killed or burned bodies being dum...
JOSE RAMIREZ In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI I didn't kill innocent people.
BILL AYERS Saddam Hussein was a nightmare for the Iraqi people, and his execution marks the end of an era when ...
MIKE PENCE There are those who have burned schools and killed doctors, nurses and many other innocent Afghans.
KHALEEQ AHMED Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journ...
EASON JORDAN It is absolutely critical to take immediate and significant action to apprehend the people responsib...
BILL BLAIR Never hurt innocent but destroy enemies even without thinking of them. Power is not a blessing its a...
PALITHA ARIYARATHNA Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
G. K. CHESTERTON I would never hurt my son. He's too little, too innocent.
FRANK SANCHEZ Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little...
ANNE M. MULCAHY What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift thro...
ARTHUR MILLER Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These ar...
JOHN GARAMENDI The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
BIBLE He's innocent and he's looking forward to his day in court.
RAYMOND KELLY I really couldn't sit back and do nothing. As long as innocent people are being tortured and killed,...
ARIELLE WISOTSKY The killing of innocent people is always wrong.
BIANCA JAGGER The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional milit...
JERRY COSTELLO The sentence reflects the death of two innocent children.
BETH MILLER To go beyond this is to harass innocent law-abiding citizens and to hurt people who love to go to gu...
JOHN DINGELL For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
G.K. CHESTERTON Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some see an innocent victim. Others will see ev...
EMILY THORNE So yes, I think the threat of violence would save lives, innocent lives. I'm sorry to say its true.
DR. JERRY VLASAK We're innocent people, looking after a population that the rich want to keep miserable.
AMARAL DUCLONA The fact of the matter is people are dying. And whenever people die, when women and children and inn...
RICHARD ARMITAGE We are trying to bring to the world what is happening there and how innocent people are killed just ...
DR. REZVAN MOHRAGI Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their d...
AL SHARPTON Everybody's been found innocent. The bartenders are innocent. The general manager is innocent. Every...
SCOTT BENNETT Our generation did not see the time of SLAVERY, so why trying to excite bitterness in the hearts of ...
OMEGALIFE The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
JACK LYNCH No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
ALBERT CAMUS Attacking innocent people is always obscene.
AYMAN ODEH We investigate in secret so that we don't smear innocent people.
JAMES COMEY We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and the...
RICARDO LAGOS How do you know it's not going to happen again, ... and this time, it just might go, 'Wham!' A whole...
JAMES KIMBALL This tragedy was the direct result of terrorism; hundreds of innocent people, mostly women and child...
JAAP DE HOOP SCHEFFER I don't know how someone could do that to people who are so innocent.
JENNA SMITH We are innocent people ... Those criminals and terrorists came and did this to us,
IMAM ALI We condemn attacks against innocent civilians. We express our sympathies with those wounded and the ...
ADAM ERELI On our part we have pledged that there will be no acts of violence. At the same time we want the gov...
ANTON BALASINGHAM Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you again what you are to presume. I am the judge. I am telling yo...
SCOTT L. TUROW Innocent people are getting blown up in Iraq because Syria is allowing its territory to be used by t...
ADAM ERELI Marvelous are the innocent.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. The...
CAROLYN HAYWOOD She has worn fur, so the innocent did not get hurt. It wasn't friendly fire.
INGRID NEWKIRK That's where all the people who are day trading, or supposedly day trading, are getting raped or kil...
HARVEY HOUTKIN The innocent smile of children makes my heart sing the melody of love.
JODIE MORGAN It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not...
BOB KEESHAN In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than thei...
NELSON MANDELA especially when those doing the shooting are police officers sworn to protect innocent people.
ERIC WARNER These people are coming from Syria into Iraq and killing a lot of innocent people,
GEORGE W BUSH Life's Irony;Many are presumed innocent not because they are really innocent,but because the opportu...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the ...
INNOCENT MWATSIKESIMBE No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction.
INNOCENT MWATSIKESIMBE Just be yourself and live life, because no one knows with surety what we are doing here on Earth. So...
INNOCENT MWATSIKESIMBE I do not wish for anyone's downfall. The world needs successful people. I just think of ways to add ...
INNOCENT MWATSIKESIMBE When you know your role in life, living makes sense because of clarity, and the loads become enjoyab...
INNOCENT MWATSIKESIMBE As soon as you start wanting something, then your eyes can see; your mind will be open to identify a...
INNOCENT MWATSIKESIMBE When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force...
INNOCENT MWATSIKESIMBE It just amazes me every time I have a debate with the ACLU on this. What would you want, to have inn...
VICTORIA TOENSING This proposal would punish people who are innocent of any wrongdoing.
BILL HAMILTON The bad apples are at the top. They enjoy murdering the innocent people.
JAMES DYE We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
[Fr., On devient innocent quand on est malheureux.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE For every cruel deed done to others only the innocent remain strong.
A.J. CHILSON Innocent People do not have to lie, hide or be silent, because there is nothing for us to be ashamed...
PATTY RASE HOPSON Remember This: People give advice, not to hurt you but, to keep you from getting hurt. They see thin...
K. MARQUES The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousan...
TIM MURPHY Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital puni...
CLINT EASTWOOD 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, / The children walking two and two, in red and...
WILLIAM BLAKE I never wavered. I always believed that I was innocent because I knew I was innocent.
ROBERT RICHARDSON People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.
PAT ROBERTSON I am 100% innocent and the charges against me are 100% false.
P. DIDDY PUFF DADDY If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.
FEDERICO FELLINI More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. Mo...
ROBERT REICH Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by reve...
CAT STEVENS Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by reve...
YUSUF ISLAM Of course, I'm innocent. Of course, I'm innocent,
BARBARA WALTERS If they want to arrest me, then let them. I am innocent and I am not a criminal.
LUCIO GUTIERREZ I have killed and hurt many people.
HIAWATHA I am convinced that I am innocent. The charges are baseless.
ABU BAKAR BA'ASYIR We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more...
BILL WILLIAMS Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
DANIEL DEFOE People often reveal their innermost selves in the most innocent of situations.
ABHISHEK RATNA I am innocent and I have never talked to judges in London.
SESIL KARATANTCHEVA Unfortunately, in many places in the world, things are not getting better. They are getting worse. S...
GORDON YOUNG Welcome to life, where the innocent are punished, and the guilty are praised.
ERIC WISE There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring t...
MIA FARROW I think this is a ridiculous outcome, ... These people are innocent and they should be freed immedia...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE She's 9 years old, she's innocent. Nobody should have just come in and taken her like that, but it h...
ANGELA BRYANT It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent...
S. J. ROZAN The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven metho...
JEFF SESSIONS This is not activism. This is a group of lawless thugs attacking innocent men, women and children.
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JEAN PAUL When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a stra...
JEAN GENET To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide...
JEAN ROSTAND Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
JEAN PAUL