Bryan Stevenson
speaker
1,245 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 3 Jul
Bryan Stevenson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I turned to that man and I said, I'm digging soil here because this is where a black man was lynched in 1937 and I'm going to honor his life today.
And she started digging.
And the man, to her surprise, said, does that memo talk about the lynching?
And she said, it does.
And then the man said, can I read it?
And she gave the man the memo and he started reading while she started digging.
And after a few minutes, the man finished reading the memo.
He put it down and then he really surprised her.
And he said, excuse me, ma'am, but would it be all right if I helped you?
And she said, yes.
And the man got down on his knees next to her and she offered him the implement to dig the soil.
He said, no, no, no, no, no.
You keep it.
I'll just use my hands.
And she said he started throwing his hands into the soil and
And putting it in the jar and throwing his hands into the soil with his whole body.
And she said there was something about the conviction with which he was putting his whole body into this that just moved her.
And the tears started running down her face.
And the man looked at her and he said, oh, ma'am, I'm so sorry.
I'm upsetting you.
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