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Bryan Stevenson · 2014
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What this book knows
American criminal justice condemns the poor and the Black with the same machinery once used to enforce slavery — and mercy is the only adequate response.
obedience-and-authority
America was in the early stages of a radical transformation… resulting in mass imprisonment that has no historical parallel.
JSTM-RC-017Having criminalized interracial sex and marriage, states throughout the South would use the law to replicate slavery's racial hierarchy.
JSTM-RC-026trauma-and-survival
Officers stopped Walter's truck, drew their weapons, forced him from his vehicle — he was charged with sodomy, a word he did not understand.
JSTM-RC-042'There were days when I couldn't breathe… I was around all these murderers, and yet it felt like sometimes they were the only ones trying to help me.'
JSTM-RC-049calling
By end of my first year I'd grown disillusioned — the courses seemed esoteric and disconnected from the race and poverty issues that had motivated me.
JSTM-RC-009Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. The opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.
JSTM-RC-019Illuminates
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