Bryan Stevenson

to better prepare ourselves for creating a more just future.

We have something called a history of racial injustice.

It's a calendar.

We put out something every day, and you can sign up for it.

And each day, we're going to teach you something about parts of our history that aren't pleasant, but we think they are necessary to understand and know.

And I hope we prepare people to be better informed, better citizens,

better stewards of the opportunities we have to create a more just world.

It's EJI.org, and we're on all of the social media sites, and so you can sign up there as well.

But yeah, particularly now when there's such resistance to honest education about some of these topics, I think it's going to become even more important to

that we'd be informed, that we'd be aware of the lessons we can learn from the misery of history.

There are lessons we learn from the glory of history, but there are also lessons we must learn from the misery of history.

And the more I do this work, the more I've come to believe that memory

is the justice we owe the 10 million black people who endured the immense suffering and constant sorrow of slavery.

When we censor knowledge and understanding of that history, when we restrict and limit what people learn about it, what we do is not just dishonest, it's unjust.

And so if we're called to do justice, we have to find a way to embrace this.

You know, for a hundred years, we pulled Black people out of their homes, and they were beaten and tortured and lynched on courthouse lawns, and we've hardly talked about it.

That era of segregation that I was born into, the humiliation and degradation of that should not just be the burden of the people who experienced that.

It should be all of our burden.

And when we understand that, then we commit to never again tolerating that kind of bigotry.

We commit to due process.