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Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

~Bryan Stevenson

Topics: Other People Quiet Sitting Somebody Speak Stand

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It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don't run from challenges because that's more comfortable and convenient.

~Bryan Stevenson

Topics: Because Before Came Challenge Challenges Comfortable Convenient For The People Least Legacy Me More People Run Who You

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Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

~Bryan Stevenson

Topics: About Afford Benefits Costs Created Doing Education Incarceration Longer Many Mass Public Public Education Services Something States Support Without

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My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.

~Bryan Stevenson

Topics: Black Came Community Eastern Kids Lawyers Lived Open Our Our Community Parents Poor Public Public Schools Remember Remember When Rural Schools Segregated Shore Still Up Were I Remember

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Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.

~Bryan Stevenson

Topics: Complicated Control Decisions Impulse Insight Judgment Kids Lifelong Long Make Maturity Most Necessary Parents Understood

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

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