Quotes by Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Explore a curated collection of 12 quotes by Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

We are bodies of broken bones. I guess I’d always known but never fully considered that being broken is what makes us hu — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Mercy is just when it is rooted in hopefulness and freely given. Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformativ — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
[N]o lie can live forever... — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if th — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
In the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights activism and new federal laws inspired the same resistance to racial progress and o — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
I told them that if someone tells a lie, that person is not *just* a liar. If you take something that does not belong to — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly fi — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
The racial terrorism of lynchings in many ways created the modern death penalty. America's embrace of speedy executions — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Sentimentality about Lee's story grew even as the harder truths of the book took no root. The story of an innocent black — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
America's prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill. — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption