Wilbert Rideau Quotes

#1. You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

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#2. Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.

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#3. Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.

Wilbert Rideau

#4. If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a different ballgame.

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#5. Whatever you want, you can make things happen.

Wilbert Rideau

#6. The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.

Wilbert Rideau