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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.

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Jack Kevorkian
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 26
Died: 2011
Died: June 3
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Michigan
Dr. Death
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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
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I have no regrets, none whatsoever.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.
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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato said, long ago. Democracy is fit only for a small country. Can't survive in a large country.
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