When it seems like the whole world thinks you're bad, it's hard to hang on to your goodness. — Anthony Ray Hinton Bad 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 Believe 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 Ask yourself 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
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 Best 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 Believe 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
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
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 Last time Copy Share Image
The men on death row had been told the world would be better without them. I tried to say that this may… — Anthony Ray Hinton Better 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 Believe Copy Share Image
I've often thought books give you - put you in a world that you never thought you could go. And I often… — Anthony Ray Hinton Book Copy Share Image
I shouldn't have sat on death row 30 years. All they had to do was test the gun. But when you think… — Anthony Ray Hinton Death Copy Share Image
I loved to read books in the free world, and there was a lot of time to sit around and do nothing… — Anthony Ray Hinton Books Copy Share Image
Henry Hays was cheated all his life. He was cheated by his father who taught him to hate. His community taught him… — Anthony Ray Hinton Community Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain exactly what it feels like to be judged. There's a shame to it. Even when you know you're… — Anthony Ray Hinton Evil 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 Breakfast 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
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 Appeal 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 Capable Copy Share Image
I just didn't believe the God that I served would allow me to die for something I didn't do. — Anthony Ray Hinton Allow Copy Share Image
I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that. — Anthony Ray Hinton America Copy Share Image
I have a good sense of humour, and that's what kept me for the 30 years I was locked up. — Anthony Ray Hinton Comedy Copy Share Image
When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do. — Anthony Ray Hinton America Copy Share Image
A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong. — Anthony Ray Hinton Admit Copy Share Image
Death row prisoners face enormous challenges in finding lawyers who will assist them. — Anthony Ray Hinton Challenges Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me. — Anthony Ray Hinton Death Copy Share Image
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 Defend Copy Share Image
The state of Alabama can take my freedom, the state of Alabama can take my future, but the state of Alabama cannot… — Anthony Ray Hinton Alabama Copy Share Image
When I went to prison, for three years I didn't say a word to another human being until, going into the fourth… — Anthony Ray Hinton Crime Copy Share Image
I often say that if I had one wish in this world, I would wish that every child could have a mother… — Anthony Ray Hinton Children Copy Share Image
