Bryan Stevenson

“We need more hope. We need more mercy. And we need more justice.”

— Bryan Stevenson

“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

I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they've ever done.

— Bryan Stevenson

“We have a collection of 800 jars of soil in our museum. We collect these soils from lynching sites. People who are…

— Bryan Stevenson

When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight…

— Bryan Stevenson

There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and…

— Bryan Stevenson

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for…

— Bryan Stevenson

The great evil of American slavery was involuntary servitude or forced labor. I really believe that the true evil of American slavery…

— Bryan Stevenson

Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated…

— Bryan Stevenson

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

The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.

— Bryan Stevenson

Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they…

— Bryan Stevenson

It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery.

— Bryan Stevenson

“I heard you in that courtroom today. I've even seen you here a couple times before. I know's you a stonecatcher, too.”

— Bryan Stevenson

Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and…

— Bryan Stevenson

You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to…

— Bryan Stevenson

“I told myself that evening what I had been telling my clients for years. I am more than broken. In fact, there…

— Bryan Stevenson

It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don't run from…

— Bryan Stevenson

“In a landmark ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice--that…

— Bryan Stevenson

“I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly…

— Bryan Stevenson

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and…

— Bryan Stevenson

“Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they…

— Bryan Stevenson

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race…

— Bryan Stevenson

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

All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone.

— Bryan Stevenson