Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of making ethical choices, even when they are difficult.
Bryan Stevenson's quote reminds us that integrity and moral courage are essential, particularly in challenging situations. It highlights the idea that doing what is right is often more difficult than taking easier paths, yet it is this commitment to righteousness that shapes our character and impacts the world positively.
In practice
In a speech about leadership at a conference, one could quote this to encourage ethical decision-making.
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.
We all have a responsibility to create a just society
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.
Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.
I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn't go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town.
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.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
I do oppose_x000D_ _x000D_ My patience to his fury, and am arm'd_x000D_ _x000D_ To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,_x000D_ _x000D_ The very tyranny and rage of his.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free . . . .
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