Maya Moore Irons > Quotes

“For every nine people who have been executed in the United States since 1973, one innocent person has been exonerated and released—a shocking rate of error.”
― Maya Moore Irons, Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts

“Perfection, admire it, aspire it, but don’t require it.” —Anonymous”
― Maya Moore Irons, Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts

“Freedom for the innocent should not be this difficult to find.”
― Maya Moore Irons, Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts

“When you deprive people of their basic and fundamental needs, you put them in a dogfight for resources and respect. This was how the riot began at The Walls.”
― Maya Moore Irons, Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts

“I’d always been a very active kid with a lot of energy, so it was hard for me to sit down in class. I’d always be tapping my foot or bouncing my knee, and teachers didn’t like that. Many got angry at me, and I didn’t respond very well to that. They didn’t want to understand me or reach me, so I grew to resent them telling me what to do.”
― Maya Moore Irons, Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts

“Welcome to Missouri State Prison. Leave all your hopes and dreams behind you.”
― Maya Moore Irons, Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts

“by 2014, the United States, despite having less than 5 percent of the global population, held 22 percent of the people imprisoned on Earth.”
― Maya Moore Irons, Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts

“don’t mistake the small things of your days as unimportant … life happens in the little details.”
― Maya Moore Irons, Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts