The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison -… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I talk about my grandmother a lot, because she's an amazing person - not in some dramatic, distinct, unique way, but anybody… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Intuitively we all like to seek the things that are comfortable rather than uncomfortable. But I do think there is a way… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“We need more hope. We need more mercy. And we need more justice.” — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“After working for more than twenty-five years, I understood that I don’t do what I do because it’s required or necessary or… — 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
“Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more than the worst thing… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Why do we want to kill all the broken people? What is wrong with us, that we think a thing like that… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. It is about how easily we condemn people… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice. — 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 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 Image
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 Image
I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“These aren’t my scars, cuts, and bruises. These are my medals of honor.” — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image