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Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson
American Activist
Born: 1959
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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
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Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved. Bryan Stevenson
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It saddens me that African Americans - when they express their pain, when they protest about police violence, when they question inequality, when they raise issues of bondage and discrimination - African Americans are seen as not patriotic. Bryan Stevenson
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I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice. Bryan Stevenson
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I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn't go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town. Bryan Stevenson
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Obviously, there were ways to have made a lot more money and to have had more leisure. But I wouldn't choose that. I feel rich in ways that are unique and that I would never trade for tens of millions of dollars in the bank. Bryan Stevenson
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I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they've ever done. Bryan Stevenson
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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
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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
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It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery. Bryan Stevenson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same. Bryan Stevenson
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You can't understand what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, you can't understand what happened to Eric Garner in New York City, without understanding this narrative of racial difference that was created during the slave years. Bryan Stevenson
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That's my mission: I really want to get in the heads and hearts of kids and persuade them that they can believe things they haven't seen, they can do things that maybe others haven't done before them, that they are more than their worst acts. Bryan Stevenson
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