Bryan Stevenson Quotes
- The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice.
- The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography…
- The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.
- We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent.…
- It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark…
- Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition…
- Are you the sum total of your worst acts?
- Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing
- Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.
- You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.
- We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our…
- We all have a responsibility to create a just society
- Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.
- I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.
- My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our…
- Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have…