People Quote by Bryan Stevenson

“Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.” quote by Bryan Stevenson — Download Open image

“Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.”

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I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I think if somebody tells a lie, they're not just a liar. I think if somebody takes something that doesn't belong to them, they're not just a thief. I think even…

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I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

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When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have…

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“These aren’t my scars, cuts, and bruises. These are my medals of honor.”

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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.

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In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence…

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If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

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There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end…

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I talk about my grandmother a lot, because she's an amazing person - not in some dramatic, distinct, unique way, but anybody who is…

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