Charlie Tate

“a half-million people in state or federal prisons for drug offenses today, up from just 41,000 in 1980.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“prohibited by “anti-miscegenation statutes” (the word miscegenation came into use in the 1860s, when supporters of slavery coined the term to promote the fear of interracial sex and marriage and the race mixing that would result if slavery was abolished). For over a century, law enforcement officials in many Southern communities absolutely saw it as part of their duty to investigate and punish black men who had been intimate with white women.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“The prison population has increased from 300,000 people in the early 1970s to 2.3 million people”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“mercy, we all need justice, and—perhaps—we all need some measure of unmerited grace.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption