Quotes by : Bryan Stevenson

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

We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion....

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

[N]o lie can live forever...

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

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

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

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....

We are bodies of broken bones. I guess I’d always known but never fully considered that being broken....