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Bryan Stevenson quotes: Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.

Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: We need more hope. We need more mercy. We need more justice.

We need more hope. We need more mercy. We need more justice.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed for every three hundred Americans; fifty years later, it was one bed for every three thousand.

In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed for every three hundred Americans; fifty years later, it was one bed for every three thousand.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: I was really struck at how hard he was working to make everyone around him feel better in the face of his own death,

I was really struck at how hard he was working to make everyone around him feel better in the face of his own death,

Bryan Stevenson quotes: An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation.

An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: You don't change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.

You don't change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.

If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: The death penalty can be imposed fairly only after carefully considering all the reasons why death might not be the appropriate sentence

The death penalty can be imposed fairly only after carefully considering all the reasons why death might not be the appropriate sentence

Bryan Stevenson quotes: Together, we hoped.

Together, we hoped.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: These aren't my scars, cuts, and bruises. These are my medals of honor.

These aren't my scars, cuts, and bruises. These are my medals of honor.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: judge overrides tend to increase in election years.

judge overrides tend to increase in election years.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: Abstractions about capital punishment were one thing, but the details of systematically killing someone who is not a threat are completely different.

Abstractions about capital punishment were one thing, but the details of systematically killing someone who is not a threat are completely different.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: You can't understand most of the important things from a distance, Bryan. You have to get close,

You can't understand most of the important things from a distance, Bryan. You have to get close,

Bryan Stevenson quotes: I wasn't prepared to meet a condemned man.

I wasn't prepared to meet a condemned man.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.

Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing

Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing

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

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

Bryan Stevenson quotes: If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: from Jefferson County, Gregory Acres from Montgomery

from Jefferson County, Gregory Acres from Montgomery

Bryan Stevenson quotes: I didn't deserve reconciliation or love in that moment, but that's how mercy works. The

I didn't deserve reconciliation or love in that moment, but that's how mercy works. The

Bryan Stevenson quotes: Why do we want to kill all the broken people?

Why do we want to kill all the broken people?

Bryan Stevenson quotes: We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: His freedom was, in a small way, a sign of hope in a hopeless place.

His freedom was, in a small way, a sign of hope in a hopeless place.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: America's prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill.

America's prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: I do what I do because I'm broken, too.

I do what I do because I'm broken, too.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The culture of sexual violence was so pervasive that even the prison chaplain was sexually assaulting women when they came to the chapel.

The culture of sexual violence was so pervasive that even the prison chaplain was sexually assaulting women when they came to the chapel.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone,

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

Bryan Stevenson quotes: I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: Proximity to the condemned and incarcerated made the question of each person's humanity more urgent and meaningful, including my own.

Proximity to the condemned and incarcerated made the question of each person's humanity more urgent and meaningful, including my own.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous.

Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: ...I understood that even as we are caught in a web of hurt and brokenness, we're also in a web of healing and mercy.

...I understood that even as we are caught in a web of hurt and brokenness, we're also in a web of healing and mercy.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: [N]o lie can live forever...

[N]o lie can live forever...

Bryan Stevenson quotes: We all have a responsibility to create a just society

We all have a responsibility to create a just society

Bryan Stevenson quotes: Dying on some court schedule or some prison schedule ain't right. People are supposed to die on God's schedule.

Dying on some court schedule or some prison schedule ain't right. People are supposed to die on God's schedule.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: I decided that I was supposed to be here to catch some of the stones people cast at each other.

I decided that I was supposed to be here to catch some of the stones people cast at each other.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

Bryan Stevenson quotes: The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice.

The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

Bryan Stevenson quotes: The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.