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4.72 AVERAGE
4.72 AVERAGE
I thought this book was a very approachable book of race and capital punishment legal issues. I read it after attempting and giving up on The New Jim Crow. I raced through this and am sorry I missed th eauthor at the Madison Book Festival this fall.
This was a slow read for me because the subject matter is so infuriating. I kept getting angry and sad and setting the book aside. That being said, everyone should read this book.
This book was difficult to get through, its brutally honest in the struggles of inmate on a personal level. Seeing these individuals go through the amount of hardship and strife as they did, solely at the whims of a corrupted justice system was difficult. Bryan brings the people he works with to life in such a compassionate way that you can’t help but feel outrage at the unbelievable racism, and the absolute callousness in which prisoners are treated. Such an important look into capital punishment, institutionalized racism, and the corruption plaguing our justice system
This book should be required reading for all high school students. Maybe then we would have more Bryan Stevensons in this world, working hard to deal with the inequalities in our justice system that adversely effect the poor and people of color. This book is anger-making and heart-breaking. I yelled a couple times and cried a couple more. It is worth every minute of your life you spend reading it.
There aren't enough words... lately, the brokenness of our world has left me disheartened. Left me without hope and without cause to wake up every morning. It sometimes felt like a lost cause to do anything, so why try? But Bryan Stevenson reminds us there is always hope and there is ALWAYS a reason to keep fighting. We are all broken. We all have biases and things that make us ugly and things that hold us back. But we are also all capable of hope and love and we are all more than deserving of mercy. Even when we don't feel like it, even when we have a hard time remembering, we are -- we are deserving of just mercy.
A very compelling read. I don’t read a lot of non-fiction and found getting into this one tough at first. Would highly recommend.
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thank you Mr Stevenson for putting your work into this writing. it was thought provoking and heart breaking and deeply inspiring. you have done so much good in Alabama alone, this world is a better place with you in it. this book was very fact based and direct about the injustice system in America, eye opening to the realities many people or color face every day (and have faced). well researched book.
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Wow. What a beautiful, terrifying, and hopeful encapsulation of the American justice system. Bryan Stevenson is a real-life Atticus Finch.
“I realized they were all broken people, too, even if they would never admit it. So many of us have become afraid and angry. We’ve become so fearful and vengeful that we’ve thrown away children, discarded the disabled, and sanctioned the imprisonment of the sick and the weak- not because they are a threat to public safety or beyond rehabilitation but because we think it makes us seem tough- less broken.”
“I realized they were all broken people, too, even if they would never admit it. So many of us have become afraid and angry. We’ve become so fearful and vengeful that we’ve thrown away children, discarded the disabled, and sanctioned the imprisonment of the sick and the weak- not because they are a threat to public safety or beyond rehabilitation but because we think it makes us seem tough- less broken.”