Performs Public Executions

Famous quotes containing the words performs, public and/or executions:

    “Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.”
    —Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)

    “Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
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    “[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn’t executions be public?”
    —Phil Donahue (b. 1935)