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

We need more hope. We need more mercy. We need more justice. — Bryan Stevenson

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

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

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

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

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

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

Together, we hoped. — Bryan Stevenson

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

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

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

We all have a responsibility to create a just society — Bryan Stevenson

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

from Jefferson County, Gregory Acres from Montgomery — Bryan Stevenson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[N]o lie can live forever... — Bryan Stevenson

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice. — Bryan Stevenson

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

...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

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

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

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

judge overrides tend to increase in election years. — Bryan Stevenson