Anthony Ray Hinton

Author

1956-06-01

Anthony Ray Hinton is an American author and criminal justice advocate. After nearly 30 years on Alabama death row, he was exonerated in 2015 and later wrote The Sun Does Shine.

Quotes by Anthony Ray Hinton

It took me a little while to remember how to use a fork. You know, we don't use forks in the penitentiary. You get a spoon.
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You never think of your freedom until it's taken away from you, and once it's taken... So, it means everything to me. You couldn't put a price tag on it.
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The State of Alabama let me down tremendously.
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I often say that if I had one wish in this world, I would wish that every child could have a mother the way my mother were. And I never went without clothes, I never went without food... I never went without anything that a child needs. But above all of that, she gave me unconditional love.
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I was born with a mother who loved me unconditionally and with a sense of humor.
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The last time I saw my mom was in 1997. My mom started getting sick, and my mom finally passed away in 2002. My mom was my world. My mom was everything to me. We didn't have money. We didn't have a whole lot of materialistic things, but one thing I can truly say, that my mother loved me and all of her children unconditionally.
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