Bryan Stevenson Quotes


If we had done the work that we should have done in the 20th century to combat our history of racial inequality, no one could win national office after demonizing people because they're Mexican or Muslim. We would be in a place where we would find that unacceptable.


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Stevenson, Bryan. Interview by Ezra Klein. The Ezra Klein Show, Vox Media, 2017.

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Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson
  • Born: November 14, 1959
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Director Equal Justice Initiative, Professor At New York University School Law

Bryan Stevenson is an American lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a law professor at New York University School of Law. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, Stevenson has challenged bias against the poor and minorities in the criminal justice system, especially children. He has helped achieve United States Supreme Court decisions that prohibit sentencing children under 18 to death or to life imprisonment without parole. Stevenson has assisted in cases that have saved dozens of prisoners from the death penalty, advocated for the poor, and developed community-based reform litigation aimed at improving the administration of criminal justice.