I can't identify a race of people in this country who are more committed to the health of this country, who believe… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
It saddens me that African Americans - when they express their pain, when they protest about police violence, when they question inequality,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you read the 13th Amendment, it doesn't talk about narratives of racial difference. It doesn't talk about ideologies of white supremacy.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
If we had done the work that we should have done in the 20th century to combat our history of racial inequality,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“...the other calling, for me, is that we have to begin this process of truth-telling, that we have to recognize that we… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I love museums, and I think they're fantastic, but they don't touch the people who I frequently think need to be touched with at… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share
I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share
I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share
When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share
“These aren’t my scars, cuts, and bruises. These are my medals of honor.” — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share
The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share
If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share
In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share
If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share
There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share
I talk about my grandmother a lot, because she's an amazing person - not in some dramatic, distinct, unique way, but anybody who is… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share
You can't understand what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, you can't understand what happened to Eric Garner in New York City, without understanding… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share
I know this might be broadcast broadly. But I'm 52 years old, and I'm going to admit to you that I've never had a… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share
If we want to be proud of our country, if we want to be proud as Americans, if we want to be proud of… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share
