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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
An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation.
— 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.
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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
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Together, we hoped.
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These aren't my scars, cuts, and bruises. These are my medals of honor.
— Bryan Stevenson
judge overrides tend to increase in election years.
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Abstractions about capital punishment were one thing, but the details of systematically killing someone who is not a threat are completely different.
— Bryan Stevenson
You can't understand most of the important things from a distance, Bryan. You have to get close,
— Bryan Stevenson
I wasn't prepared to meet a condemned man.
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Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.
— Bryan Stevenson
Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing
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The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.
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If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.
— Bryan Stevenson
from Jefferson County, Gregory Acres from Montgomery
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I didn't deserve reconciliation or love in that moment, but that's how mercy works. The
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Why do we want to kill all the broken people?
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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
His freedom was, in a small way, a sign of hope in a hopeless place.
— Bryan Stevenson
America's prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill.
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I do what I do because I'm broken, too.
— Bryan Stevenson
I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.
— 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.
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The culture of sexual violence was so pervasive that even the prison chaplain was sexually assaulting women when they came to the chapel.
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Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.
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All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone,
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I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.
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Proximity to the condemned and incarcerated made the question of each person's humanity more urgent and meaningful, including my own.
— 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.
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...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
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We all have a responsibility to create a just society
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Dying on some court schedule or some prison schedule ain't right. People are supposed to die on God's schedule.
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I decided that I was supposed to be here to catch some of the stones people cast at each other.
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Are you the sum total of your worst acts?
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