![]() ![]() The point though, is this: He is 52, and he has never had a drop of alcohol. His brother stared at him and said, “I hope you’re not still hung up on that conversation. Later, when he was 14 or 15, his siblings offered him a beer, which made him uncomfortable, and he refused. 2) Always do the right thing, even when it’s the hard thing. I think you can do anything you want to do. ![]() After 15 or 20 minutes, she took him aside and said, “We’re going to have a talk.” She said, “I want you to know I’ve been watching you. When he was 8 or 9, he went into the living room, and his grandmother was staring at him. She would often squeeze him so tight he could barely breathe. He grew up in a matriachal house, where the undisputed matriarch was his grandmother: “She was the end of every argument in the family.” The daughter of people who were enslaved, she was tough but loving. The point, he says, is that, “Identity is important.” Things said here have a power that maybe they don’t elsewhere. So he’s found it very energizing at TED, and wanted to start by pointing out that there is a distinct identity here. He’s a lawyer, and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. Bryan Stevenson spends most of his time in jails and prisons and on death row. ![]()
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