Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I think there is a contempt for the human dignity of people who were enslaved. You couldn't see them as fully human and so you didn't respect their desire to be connected to a family and a place. That was the only way you could tolerate and make sense of lynching and the terror that lynching represented.

Bryan Stevenson's Popular Quotes

When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by a…

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The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first Confederate post …

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The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

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We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation…

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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…

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We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpabili…

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Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.

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The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

- Bryan Stevenson