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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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Amazing. A must-read.
It's a very well-told collection of stories, mostly from Alabama and the deep south... ending with the reader basically being like "WTF is up with our legal system and basically everything in the country." So much is stacked against the poor, the minority (particularly black), women and juveniles... it was humbling to learn all the things I never knew went on. These are not stories from the distant past. These are stories from during my lifetime of flagrant police corruption, witness tampering, and wrongful convictions. Actions rooted in deep racism and power structures. It's really heartbreaking; I'm enraged.
I loved Stevenson's quote at the end: (paraphrased): The question isn't does the defendant deserve to die but do we deserve to kill.
I honestly didn't have much of a strong opinion on the death penalty before this. Now, I definitely do.
It's a very well-told collection of stories, mostly from Alabama and the deep south... ending with the reader basically being like "WTF is up with our legal system and basically everything in the country." So much is stacked against the poor, the minority (particularly black), women and juveniles... it was humbling to learn all the things I never knew went on. These are not stories from the distant past. These are stories from during my lifetime of flagrant police corruption, witness tampering, and wrongful convictions. Actions rooted in deep racism and power structures. It's really heartbreaking; I'm enraged.
I loved Stevenson's quote at the end: (paraphrased): The question isn't does the defendant deserve to die but do we deserve to kill.
I honestly didn't have much of a strong opinion on the death penalty before this. Now, I definitely do.
Upset that I didn't know about this book when it first came out. Always appalled at the things I didn't know about my country. Thank you Mr. Stevenson for your work, your book, and many quotable lines.
A must read! Should be required reading in order to “feel” history
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I listened to the audiobook narrated by Bryan Stevenson himself. The way he talked about the cases he worked on was captivating, and it was easy to see how much he cared about the people he helped. Stevenson did amazing work in Alabama by setting up the EJI, which has only kept growing since the publication of this book.
It was challenging at times to hear such powerful and sorrowful tales of people who have been wrongly prosecuted and lay scared in a cell. However, this book also gives hope for the possibility of freedom for them as the EJI and other similar resources try to fight this injustice. It's not an easy change, and even the people freed still lose so much of their lives, but Stevenson gave me hope that there are good people out there willing to fight for what is right.
It was challenging at times to hear such powerful and sorrowful tales of people who have been wrongly prosecuted and lay scared in a cell. However, this book also gives hope for the possibility of freedom for them as the EJI and other similar resources try to fight this injustice. It's not an easy change, and even the people freed still lose so much of their lives, but Stevenson gave me hope that there are good people out there willing to fight for what is right.