Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
Buy on AmazonThis book is a call to individual and collective courage. Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, writes, ‘Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. 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.’ His work changed me.
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"This book is a call to individual and collective courage. Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, writes, ‘Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. 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.’ His work changed me."
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