Bryan Stevenson Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery. Because we never dealt with that evil, I don't think slavery ended in 1865, it just evolved.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Thinking, Differences, Evil

  Source: www.progressive.org

• There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be the people we want to name schools and streets after.

  Bryan Stevenson

  School, Names, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Legacy, Needs, Slavery

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Law, People, Grandparent

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Lynching, People, Slavery

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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