Quotes from workA Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993. While it is a fictional work, it is loosely based on the true story of Willie Francis, a young black man sentenced to death by the electric chair twice in Louisiana, in 1945 and 1947.
“I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.”
Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying
Source: A Lesson Before Dying
