Every day, every month, every year that the state took from him, they took something that they don't have the power to give back. While this moment is quite joyous and is quite wonderful, this case is quite tragic. Bryan Stevenson More Quotes by Bryan Stevenson More Quotes From Bryan Stevenson I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change. Bryan Stevenson saws want people In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful. Bryan Stevenson powerful struggle war Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region. Bryan Stevenson roles community unique I talk about my grandmother a lot, because she's an amazing person - not in some dramatic, distinct, unique way, but anybody who is the daughter of enslaved people and who has found a way to be hopeful and create love and value justice and seek peace is a remarkable person. Bryan Stevenson grandmother daughter unique I dont think we are going to solve the problems we have in our prisons by building more prisons, im not indifferent to some of the infrastructure challenges, but when you have a college football team who cant win a game, you dont say, Lets build a new stadium, thatll fix our problems. Bryan Stevenson us A lot of prisoners feel like theyll be punished for reporting an assault. Bryan Stevenson us Prisoners with dementia or severe mental illness are extremely vulnerable, that the court has recognized that they cannot be subject to abusive or cruel treatment under the Eighth Amendment is enormously important if our system is going to function in a humane and just manner. Bryan Stevenson us-news Ray Hinton was convicted because Ray Hinton was poor. Bryan Stevenson us We are thrilled that Mr. Hinton will finally be released because he has unnecessarily spent years on Alabama's death row when evidence of his innocence was clearly presented, the refusal of state prosecutors to re-examine this case despite persuasive and reliable evidence of innocence is disappointing and troubling. Bryan Stevenson us-news Race, poverty, inadequate legal assistance, and prosecutorial indifference to innocence conspired to create a textbook example of injustice, i can't think of a case that more urgently dramatizes the need for reform than what has happened to Anthony Ray Hinton. Bryan Stevenson us-news We've been hoping for this. We've believed that this should have happened. Bryan Stevenson us He was a poor person who was convicted because he didn't have the money to prove his innocence at trial. He was unable to get the legal help he needed for years. He was convicted based on bad science. Bryan Stevenson us The South is littered with monuments for the Civil War, but we haven’t looked at the great evil of slavery. Its aftermath morphed into terrorism of lynching. Bryan Stevenson us-news Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved. Bryan Stevenson evolved end just slavery The great evil of American slavery was involuntary servitude or forced labor. I really believe that the true evil of American slavery was the narrative of racial difference that we created to justify it. Bryan Stevenson great slavery evil believe There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end segregation. What changed things was the rule of law, the courts. Brown v. Board of Education was ushered in by a movement, but it was a legal decision. Bryan Stevenson you education time people It saddens me that African Americans - when they express their pain, when they protest about police violence, when they question inequality, when they raise issues of bondage and discrimination - African Americans are seen as not patriotic. Bryan Stevenson me police pain violence I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice. Bryan Stevenson wealth poverty justice believe I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn't go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town. Bryan Stevenson town go up community Obviously, there were ways to have made a lot more money and to have had more leisure. But I wouldn't choose that. I feel rich in ways that are unique and that I would never trade for tens of millions of dollars in the bank. Bryan Stevenson feel rich money unique
