I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison. — 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… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I say this thing about how I've never had to say my head is bloodied but not bowed, like everybody who came… — 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
I think there is a contempt for the human dignity of people who were enslaved. You couldn't see them as fully human… — 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… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I do talk and think a lot about the legacy before me. I feel like if I didn't know that people had… — 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
In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die for the crimes they've… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required… — 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
