Bryan Stevenson

It's to position ourselves in places where people are struggling, where people are falling down, where people have lost hope, where people are worried that they can't make it.

Those two words are really powerful.

And just say, I'm here.

You don't even have to have answers after that.

I think just being present, that witness for a lot of people can be transformative.

Thank you.

Our hope is what can sustain us when things look bleak and difficult.

And that is the reason why I believe that hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

Justice will prevail if we allow ourselves to give in to hopelessness.

Hope is our superpower.

It's the thing that will get some of us to stand up even when people say sit down.

It will get some of us to speak even when people say be quiet.

It's the thing that will get us to believe we can do things that maybe other people think we can't do.

I have to give it to my clients, and I can't give someone something I don't have.

And so for me, it's an orientation of the Spirit.

You know, Vaclav Havel, the great Czech leader, talked about this.

wanting all kinds of things during the time of Soviet domination.

And he said, we wanted money and recognition and resources, but the only thing we needed, he said, was hope.

And Havel says the kind of hope you need is not a preference for optimism over pessimism.

It's not