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
You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight… — 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
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
We've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers… — 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