I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility. Bryan Stevenson More Quotes by Bryan Stevenson More Quotes From Bryan Stevenson I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they've ever done. Bryan Stevenson personworstdonebelieve Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions. Bryan Stevenson controlparentsmaturitylong I can't identify a race of people in this country who are more committed to the health of this country, who believe more in the Constitution, who believe more in equality and liberation and fairness to everyone else than black people. Bryan Stevenson equalityblackhealthpeople We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it has prevented us from being healthy. Bryan Stevenson racialbeinginequalityhistory 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. Bryan Stevenson winworkhistorypeople It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery. Bryan Stevenson architectscelebrateslaverywant One of the things that pains me is we have so tragically underestimated the trauma, the hardship we create in this country when we treat people unfairly, when we incarcerate them unfairly, when we condemn them unfairly. Bryan Stevenson treatmecountrypeople We've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but it's everywhere. Bryan Stevenson jobyoulegacypoor You can't segregate and humiliate people decade after decade without creating long-lasting injuries. Bryan Stevenson decadeinjuriesyoupeople If you read the 13th Amendment, it doesn't talk about narratives of racial difference. It doesn't talk about ideologies of white supremacy. It only talks about involuntary servitude and forced labor. Bryan Stevenson differencetalkyouwhite When I went to Harvard Law School, my first year, I didn't want people to know I started my education in a colored school. I didn't want them to know I was the great-grandson of enslaved people. I thought it might diminish me. Bryan Stevenson meeducationpeopleschool I grew up in a house that was the traditional African-American home that was dominated by a matriarch, and that matriarch was my grandmother. She was tough. She was strong. She was powerful. Bryan Stevenson toughstronghousehome I grew up in the country in the rural South, and I have a brother a year older than me and a sister a year younger. Bryan Stevenson mesisterbrothercountry I know this might be broadcast broadly. But I'm 52 years old, and I'm going to admit to you that I've never had a drop of alcohol. Bryan Stevenson neverknowyoualcohol When we create the right kind of identity, we can say things to the world around us that they don't actually believe makes sense. We can get them to do things that they don't think they can do. Bryan Stevenson thinkidentitybelieveworld
