Bryan Stevenson Quotes - Page 2

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• All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Survival, Tied

  "We need to talk about an injustice". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and difficult things.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Believe, Heart, Dark

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• The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Reality, Race, Punishment

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• Intuitively we all like to seek the things that are comfortable rather than uncomfortable. But I do think there is a way of saying that if I believe in justice and I believe that justice is a constant struggle, and if I want to create justice, then I have to get comfortable with struggle.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Believe, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have lionized these people, and we have romanticized their courage and their commitment and their tenacity, and we have completely eliminated the reality that created the Civil War.

  Bryan Stevenson

  War, Commitment, Reality

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Care, Death Penalty, Penalties

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• Why do we want to kill all the broken people?

  Bryan Stevenson

  People, Broken, Want

  Bryan Stevenson (2014). “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption”, p.300, Spiegel & Grau

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• Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Knowing, People, Capacity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Exercise, Injustice, Inequality

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Support, Cost, Benefits

  "Bryan Stevenson on the True Costs of Mass Incarceration". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. July 12, 2012.

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• My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Taught Us, Hopeful, Parent

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Careers, Justice, Judging

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Punishment, Unjust, Administration

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• Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required to think as carefully and thoughtfully, and directly, about this legacy of racial inequality and structural poverty. And what it's contributing to these wrongful convictions.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Thinking, People, Legacy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Lynching, People, Slavery

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think there is a contempt for the human dignity of people who were enslaved. You couldn't see them as fully human and so you didn't respect their desire to be connected to a family and a place. That was the only way you could tolerate and make sense of lynching and the terror that lynching represented.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Thinking, Lynching, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Resistance, Sometimes, Comfortable

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and misleading, and actually dangerous. And the narrative that emerges when you spend time in the South - places likes Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana - is that we have always been a noble, wonderful, glorious region of the country, with wonderful, noble, glorious people doing wonderful, noble, glorious things. And there's great pride in the Alabamians of the nineteenth century.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Country, Believe, Pride

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If we want to be proud of our country, if we want to be proud as Americans, if we want to be proud of our history, then we can't talk about the things that are inconsistent with pride, about which we can have no pride.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Country, Pride, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Lynching, America, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Race, Lenses, Poverty

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Country, Love You, Thinking

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.

  Bryan Stevenson

  People, Legacy, Unreliability

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Law, People, Grandparent

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don't run from challenges because that's more comfortable and convenient.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Running, People, Challenges

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