Quotes by : Bryan Stevenson

Mercy is just when it is rooted in hopefulness and freely given. Mercy is most empowering, liberating,....

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

Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness,....

Walter's case taught me that fear and anger are a threat to justice; they can infect a community, a state,....

In the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights activism and new federal laws inspired the same resistance to racial....

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

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

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

Sentimentality about Lee's story grew even as the harder truths of the book took no root. The story of....

The racial terrorism of lynchings in many ways created the modern death penalty. America's embrace of....