I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn't go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the limitations and discrimination faced in a segregated community, emphasizing the impact on education and social opportunities.
Bryan Stevenson's quote illustrates the profound effect that segregation has on individual development and access to essential services such as education and recreation. Growing up in a segregated community meant that he was systematically excluded from opportunities available to others, which not only hindered his intellectual growth but also shaped his understanding of injustice and inequality in society.
In practice
In a speech addressing community youth about the importance of education in overcoming challenges.
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.
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.
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.
Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.
In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place
First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.
The man who never reads lives only one.
What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone
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