Bryan stevenson

The best-selling author and public interest lawyer grew up in a home where words mattered. A lot.

On Saturday, Stevenson will receive the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award. We sat down with him to discuss how society can better insure that justice is the product of its justice system and how we can better come to terms with our history and the impact that history has on us today.

Bryan Steven is a human rights lawyer, activist and a man who makes us face the parts of our society that are inhumane and unjust. Here are some of the best Bryan Stevenson quotes about equality and the American criminal justice system.

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The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative talks about his big-screen moment in Just Mercy and what people need to understand about the criminal justice system.

Attorney and activist Bryan Stevenson on how America’s racial sins live on in our criminal justice system — and his belief that a transformation is possible.

Bryan Steven is a human rights lawyer, activist and a man who makes us face the parts of our society that are inhumane and unjust. Here are some of the best Bryan Stevenson quotes about equality and the American criminal justice system.

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

"I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they've ever done," says Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer and the founder and Executive Director…

Founder and Executive Director of EJI.