Bryan Stevenson

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.

We commit to the rule of law because we know that mob violence and fear and anger will create destruction and harm and hardship to people who are othered.

And I think a consciousness about that is really key to how we move forward.

And so, yes, I do believe that learning at this moment all across the globe is going to be a vital action item.

Absolutely.

And the beautiful thing is that on the other side of that learning, you get to understand what hope can yield.

We have an exhibit in our museum.

It's 800 jars of soil.

And we have a project where we're trying to put markers at every lynching site in America.