Courageous Bystanders
3 min readApr 24, 2021
“The measure of a civilization is not in the courage of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.” — Jack McDevitt
“The people who stopped and raised their voices on May 25 2020 were a bouquet of humanity… old, young, men and women, black and white. A man from the neighborhood just walking to get a drink. A child going to buy a snack with her cousin. An off-duty firefighter on her way to a community garden. Brave young women —…