If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.
- Bryan Stevenson
More Quotes By Bryan Stevenson
- Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and...
- There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and...
- You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the...
- We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you’re rich and...
- You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.
- We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt...
- Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.
- The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don’t believe that. I actually think, in too many places,...
- The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated,...
- The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we...
- Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.
- In many ways, we’ve been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die...
- We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of...
- Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing
- The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to...
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