Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
I should say thanks to my daughter for giving me this book as a gift.
Just Mercy is a book based on some true stories, that show readers the continuing injustices in the USA in general and especially about African-Americans. In his book, Bryan Stevenson refers to those who have been unjustly sentenced to the death penalty. He explains that the United States is one of the countries with the highest prison population, including the number of juvenile prisoners. Stevenson points to teenagers who committed murder in their teenage years and were sentenced to death and held in adult prison. I have learned a lot from this book, but two things were more important to me.
First, despite some amazing advances in clinical medicine over the past few decades, we have not made much progress in treating mental illnesses.
Secondly, he explains very clearly that confronting wealth or the rich is not the right solution to alleviate a society's poverty. He believes that resolving legal inequalities in the economy and criminal laws are the most effective ways to eradicate poverty in society.
"Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done" (17). "My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice" (18).
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Review of "Just Mercy," by Bryan Stevenson - The New York Times
Note By Adel Esmaeilpour
