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A powerful read about a subject I had never really given much thought. So glad this was part of the Governerds book club and I’ll be thinking about this one for awhile.
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“We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent. I desperately wanted mercy for Jimmy Dill and would have done anything to create justice for him, but I couldn't pretend that his struggle was disconnected from my own. The ways in which I have been hurt—and have hurt others—are different from the ways Jimmy Dill suffered and caused suffering. But our shared brokenness connected us.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
This is a heartbreaking, but necessary read for everyone. It is eye opening, thought provoking, and true. Why is our justice system based on money, privilege, and power? If you don't think that it is, then you just haven't read the fine print. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption makes that fine print bold and speaks for real like people caught up in bureaucracy, racism, and elitism. Children in adult prisons? Women imprisoned for pregnancy problems? Mentally disabled on death row? Biased judges, prosecutors and investigators? Read this book and tell me these travesties don't exist.
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
This is a heartbreaking, but necessary read for everyone. It is eye opening, thought provoking, and true. Why is our justice system based on money, privilege, and power? If you don't think that it is, then you just haven't read the fine print. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption makes that fine print bold and speaks for real like people caught up in bureaucracy, racism, and elitism. Children in adult prisons? Women imprisoned for pregnancy problems? Mentally disabled on death row? Biased judges, prosecutors and investigators? Read this book and tell me these travesties don't exist.
“There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.”
An inspiration. A grounding in this work. Can’t wait to teach this this fall.
An inspiration. A grounding in this work. Can’t wait to teach this this fall.
When I was younger, I had so much faith in our system of government, and I believed in justice. The older I got, the more doubts I had about the wonders of our democracy and the notion of equality for all. This book both chips away at what remains of the younger version of myself and reaffirms the possibility that goodness exists. Throughout Just Mercy, through one horrific story after another, Bryan Stevenson and people like him prove that there is a reason to push back and a chance that the effort will actually make things better. Bravo to Mr. Stevenson and all the people like him who make a real difference in this world.
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