There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end segregation. What changed things was the rule of law, the courts. Brown v. Board of Education was ushered in by a movement, but it was a legal decision. Bryan Stevenson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn’t go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town. Bryan Stevenson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You can’t segregate and humiliate people decade after decade without creating long-lasting injuries. Bryan Stevenson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery. Bryan Stevenson Read Quote
