Quotes from Anthony Ray Hinton

When you have a death row case, you have to make 100 percent sure you have the right person. But these DAs in the state of Alabama are racist.

I was put on death row because of hate.

Believe me, when you're sitting on death row, you want the appeal process to take time; as long as you're going through it, you're going to be alive.

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

I don't believe that man was built to be put in a 5-by-7 for 30 years and have his sanity when he comes out if he doesn't find something to escape.

My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.

For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence.

Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.

Bitterness kills the soul.

Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.

There was a time I thought I'd never see the sun again.

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.

My mom was my mother and father. My father lost his mind when I was about 4 years old. And my mom did everything she could to make sure that we was brought up right.

A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.

I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.

What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?

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.

I've often thought books give you - put you in a world that you never thought you could go. And I often would say, I don't need to go to California. Give me a book that talks about California. And I can put it in my head and imagine what it looked like.

Henry Hays was cheated all his life. He was cheated by his father who taught him to hate. His community taught him to hate. My mom told me, no matter what one does in life, he or she deserves some compassion, and I knew Hays deserved compassion more than anybody.

I cannot hate, because my Bible teaches me not to hate.

I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go wherever I wanted to go. I left death row every day.