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Bryan Stevenson is an American lawyer, educator, and social activist known for his contributions to criminal justice reform and the defense of the rights of the poor. Born on November 14, 1959, Stevenson is a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Law.

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Famous Bryan Stevenson Quotes

“My relatives worked hard all the time but never seemed to prosper. My grandfather was murdered when I was a teenager, but it didn't seem to matter much to the world outside our family.”

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Book:Just Mercy

Source: Just Mercy

“Being close to suffering, death, executions, and cruel punishments didn't just illuminate the brokenness of others; in a moment of anguish and heartbreak, it also exposed my own brokenness. You can't effectively fight abusive power, poverty, inequality, illness, oppression, or injustice and not be broken by it.”

Capital Punishment Racial Equity

Book:Just Mercy

Source: Just Mercy

“We’ve given up on rehabilitation, education, and services for the imprisoned because providing assistance to the incarcerated is apparently too kind and compassionate. We've institutionalized policies that reduce people to their worst acts and permanently label them "criminal," "murderer," "rapist," "thief," "drug dealer," "sex offender," "felon," - identities they cannot change regardless of the circumstances of their crimes or any improvements they might make in their lives.”

Capital Punishment Racial Equity

Book:Just Mercy

Source: Just Mercy

“It's been so strange, Bryan. More people have asked me what they can do to help in the last fourteen hours of my life than ever asked me in the years I was coming up.”

Capital Punishment Racial Equity

Book:Just Mercy

Source: Just Mercy

“I feel like they done put me on death row, too What do we tell these children about how to stay out of harms way when you can be at your own house, minding your own business, surrounded by your entire family, and they still put some murder on you that you ain't do and send you to death row?”

Capital Punishment Racial Equity

Book:Just Mercy

Source: Just Mercy

“In Deep South states, jury rolls were pulled from voting rolls, which excluded African Americans.”

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“We've all been through a lot, Bryan, all of us. I know that some have been through more than others. But if we don't expect more from each other hope better for one another, and recover from the hurt we experience, we are surely doomed”

Forgiveness Racial Equity

Book:Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Source: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent. The ways in which I have been hurt - and have hurt others - are different from the ways Jimmy Dill suffered and caused suffering. But our shared brokenness connected us.”

Book:Just Mercy

Source: Just Mercy

About the Author

Born: November 14, 1959
Known for: Professor
Quotes: 141

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