Bryan Stevenson Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Believe, Compassion, Punishment

• The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Opposites, Justice, Poverty

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

• We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Justice

• 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

• We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Country, Father, Home

• The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Baby, Color, Jail

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Love You, Justice, Community

  Source: www.progressive.org

• 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

  Daughter, Grandmother, Unique

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Thinking, Justice, Enemy

  Source: www.progressive.org

• 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

• 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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