Anthony Ray Hinton

To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat. ”

When the very people that you been taught to believe in - the police, the D.A., these are the people that are supposed to stand for justice - and when you know that they lied to you, it's hard for you to have trust in anybody. ”

America should be ashamed to say they have the best justice system in the world when, every day, race plays a part in who goes to prison, who don't go to prison. ”

To me, America need to clean up their own home before they tell another country about human rights. I'm a primary example. America don't care nothing about human rights. ”

Justice should be one of the things that's colorblind. ”

You never think of your freedom until it's taken away from you, and once it's taken... So, it means everything to me. You couldn't put a price tag on it. ”

Being on death row has taken so much from me as a human being. ”

I've seen hate at its worse. What would it profit me to hate? ”

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing. ”

Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long. ”