Bryan stevenson

"Get proximate. Change the narrative. Stay hopeful. Be willing to do the uncomfortable." - Bryan Stevenson

Transcript of "We need to talk about an injustice"

In a new memoir, Bryan Stevenson recounts his efforts to reverse glaring mistakes in criminal justice cases.

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight For Equality

The best-selling author and public interest lawyer grew up in a home where words mattered. A lot.

In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.

Effective leadership is going to the people. Going to the bad areas. Going to the places nobody else wants to go to. -Bryan Stevenson

In "Just Mercy," Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx lead a diverse team to tell the story of Bryan Stevenson’s fight to free an innocent man.

Best-selling author on his new YA book on justice and Alabama's new museum on enslavement and incarceration

From Bryan Stevenson's TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice?language=en

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We all need mercy, we all need justice, and- perhaps - we all need some measure of unmerited grace.

JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson. "Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those in need. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever."- Hugo, BOT Assistant in…

The author of the book behind the new film ‘Just Mercy’ shows the church a way forward.

“Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformative when it is directed at the undeserving. The people who haven’t earned it, who haven’t even sought it, are the most meaningful recipients of our compassion.” -Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

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