Just Mercy A Story of Justice and Redemption

In my neighborhood the whole criminal justice system lost legitimacy when people see folks having a system as Bryan Stevenson says it treats you better if you're rich and guilty than poor and innocent.

He went to the bookstore and got a whole bunch of books from The New Jim Crow to Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy.

He is the author of the mega bestseller, mustread book, Just Mercy.

He is also the author of a mega bestselling book that documents his life work, Just Mercy, which was named one of the most influential books of the decade by CNN.

In your book, you have this beautiful, beautiful thing that you write on page 309...

He wrote the number one New York Times mega bestselling book, Just Mercy, which became a major motion picture.

the author of the generation-defining New York Times bestselling book turned award-winning film, Just Mercy.

His mega-best-selling book, Just Mercy, was named one of the most influential books of the decade by CNN.

the book, Just Mercy, was turned into an award-winning feature film starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx that went on to win four NAACP Image Awards.

Brian, you wrote about him in your book, and I want to read the poem that he wrote ... from your remarkable book, Just Mercy.

through the incredible book, Just Mercy, you talk about this landmark case where for years and years and years, you saw hope and possibility where no one else did.

Scott made the three Hangover movies, but then also made Just Mercy.

And if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

donating a hundred percent of my proceeds to equal justice initiative which we learned about last year when we watched just mercy as a community

And we will be discussing Just Mercy, the Toast Movie of the Week, on Monday. It gives you a little more time to watch.

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And I feel like I learned so much. We can actually, we can link to it in our show notes. But just to rewatch this episode right now and hear that line, I mean, it just, yeah, it had a lot, it had a lot of added poignancy for me.

And it's just, it's a really powerful book.

It's a memoir. It's about, it's the story of this lawyer, Bryan Stevenson, and how he helps to overturn the sentence of a man who's on death row for a crime he didn't commit. But it also goes into ways that our criminal justice system is in need of reform.

Closest thing to the comments section in Brian Stevenson's book, Just Mercy.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Where Do We Go From Here by Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis, The Man Not by Dr. Tommy J. Curry.

Bryan Stevenson's powerful groundbreaking book Just Mercy is perhaps the most well known chronicle of wrongful conviction.

The heart of that book is about a case in Alabama.

He's the author of Just Mercy.

The Equal Justice Initiative was founded by attorney Bryan Stevenson. He's the author of Just Mercy.

We've now, I just won the release of a man a year ago who was the 156th person exonerated, released from death row after being proven innocent.

That means that for every nine people we've executed in this country, we've now identified one innocent person on death row.

It is a shameful rate of error.

Your grandfather was murdered. That's right.

When my grandfather, when I was 16, my grandfather was stabbed to death in Philadelphia by several young men who broke into his apartment to try to steal a TV.

And then the one about the convicted guy jury.

Just Mercy.

Oh, yeah. You all made me read that.

I like that book.

I went down to Montgomery for the opening of the Equal Justice Initiative's new memorial and monument.

Really important that everybody go because talk about our need to contextualize and know our own history.

This is what that monument and memorial and museum are all about.

The museum itself, it's called the Legacy Museum.

It draws the link between from mass enslavement to mass incarceration.

love is the motive, but justice is the instrument

we are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair until we all suffer from the absence of mercy. And we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others.

we all need justice. ...we all need mercy. We all need justice. And perhaps we all need some measure of unmerited grace.

I was very intrigued when I went back to the room. When I went back to Just Mercy, getting ready to speak with you that I had forgotten that you have, you quote Reinhold Niebuhr at the beginning of the book, the public theologian of the last century saying, love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

And I'm pretty sure this is from Just Mercy, which gets at this, the life-giving possibility in us picking this up.

You said, we are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair until we all suffer from the absence of mercy. And we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others.

He's also the author of Just Mercy, a New York Times best-selling memoir.

I want to congratulate you also on the continued success of your book Just Mercy which is now out for four years.

and in I think more recent news is going to be made into a motion picture right

The wisdom Stevenson offers on the history of racial injustice in America is tragically evergreen.

The threshold question in the American criminal justice system is do we deserve to kill?

When you execute someone wrongly, you have no ability to recover from that. And we don't have a perfect system.

We just don't care as much structurally, systemically about the victimization of black and brown people.

If we got to that point, we wouldn't want the death penalty. We'd understand something about ourselves.

I want to congratulate you also on the continued success of your book Just Mercy, which is now out for four years?

Well, the whole point for me in writing the book was to get more people to understand these issues.

He's also the author of Just Mercy, a New York Times best-selling memoir.

Stevenson is also the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Just Mercy, which has been adapted into a movie released in theaters yesterday.

He's also the author of Just Mercy, a New York Times best-selling memoir.

I want to congratulate you also on the continued success of your book Just Mercy which is now out for four years.

yeah four years and it continues to be extremely popular and extremely meaningful for a lot of people and in I think more recent news is going to be made into a motion picture right.