We all have a responsibility to create a just society
Interpretation
Creating a just society is a collective responsibility that each individual shares.
Bryan Stevenson emphasizes that the pursuit of justice and equity in society is not the job of a few but rather the duty of everyone. Each person has a role to play in fostering fairness, understanding, and compassion, which are essential for building a just community.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about social justice reforms.
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.
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 opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.
If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'
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