Quotes by : Bryan Stevenson

Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat....

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

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,....

I told them that if someone tells a lie, that person is not *just* a liar. If you take something that....

[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?

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....