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 recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.
I think that the best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. For me the best way to fight against terrorism and extremism... just a simple thing: educate the next generation.
So much about big-time college sports is criticized. But the worst scandal is almost never mentioned: the academic fraud wherein the student-athletes, so-called, are admitted without even remotely adequate credentials and then aren't educated so much as they are just kept eligible.
The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject. For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern. It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who donβt have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated.
The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings
My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.
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