I want you to know there is a God. He sits high, but he looks low. He will destroy, but yet he… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
Black, poor, without a father most of my life, one of 10 children - it was actually pretty amazing I had made… — Anthony Ray Hinton Age Copy Share Image
I was not going to allow myself to really believe that I was free until I was actually free. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
America should be ashamed to say they have the best justice system in the world when, every day, race plays a part… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years? — Anthony Ray Hinton Death Copy Share Image
Believe me, when you're sitting on death row, you want the appeal process to take time; as long as you're going through… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
You get to know everyone on death row. You become friends with them and their families. I met some great guys. Everyone… — Anthony Ray Hinton Death Copy Share Image
On September 22, 2002, my mama, Buhlar Hinton, died. When the guards told me, I gave up. She'd been deteriorating for a… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
If you don't have a place to live or money or whatever, you ask yourself, "What am I gonna do?" But my… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
When the very people that you been taught to believe in - the police, the D.A., these are the people that are… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
What do you say to a person who is going to their death? Normally, we would just say, 'Hang in there, keep… — Anthony Ray Hinton Death Copy Share Image
The last time I saw my mom was in 1997. My mom started getting sick, and my mom finally passed away in… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
Death row was the only place where I never witnessed racism. We all went to bed with a death sentence on our… — Anthony Ray Hinton Death Copy Share Image
To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game… — Anthony Ray Hinton Baseball Copy Share Image
When every court was saying 'no,' I believe God was still saying yes. I had to somehow find that faith and reach… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
My mom was my mother and father. My father lost his mind when I was about 4 years old. And my mom… — Anthony Ray Hinton Father Copy Share Image
Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
I have too much to live for to allow a bunch of cowards to take my joy. I refuse to give them… — Anthony Ray Hinton Cowards Copy Share Image
I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go… — Anthony Ray Hinton Day Copy Share Image
I witnessed other inmates' time run out, and I'd be lying if I said you don't ask yourself, 'Wow, is that going… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
I believe in laughter. I believe laughter is good for the soul. I believe in making other people laugh to make them… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
It took me a little while to remember how to use a fork. You know, we don't use forks in the penitentiary.… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
When it seems like the whole world thinks you're bad, it's hard to hang on to your goodness. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
I don't believe that man was built to be put in a 5-by-7 for 30 years and have his sanity when he… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
When you have a death row case, you have to make 100 percent sure you have the right person. But these DAs… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
I have no respect for the prosecutors, the judges. And I say that not with malice in my heart. I say it… — Anthony Ray Hinton Heart Copy Share Image
You never think of your freedom until it's taken away from you, and once it's taken... So, it means everything to me.… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
They took my 30s, my 40s, my 50s, but what they couldn't take was my joy. I couldn't do nothing about the… — Anthony Ray Hinton Control Copy Share Image
To me, America need to clean up their own home before they tell another country about human rights. I'm a primary example.… — Anthony Ray Hinton America Copy Share Image
