Just Mercy Quotes

  • Bryan Stevenson: The first time I visited Death Row, I wasn't expecting to meet someone the same age as me... from a neighborhood just like ours coulda been me.

  • Anthony Ray Hinton: [to Walter on his potential execution] You know what they said to me when they pulled me over... one of you niggers did it and... if you didn't then you're taking one for your homies

  • Walter McMillian: [to Herb] You need to be in a hospital not here

  • Judge Foster: SIT Down Son!

    John McMillian: [defiantly] Not if you're going to go kill my dad sir!

  • Eva Ansley: [after someone threatened to blow up her house with a bomb] Maybe people will stop tryin' to kill us once they realize how charming we are.

  • Bryan Stevenson: I came out of law school with grand ideas in my mind about how to change the world. But Mr. McMillian made me realize we can't change the world with only ideas in our minds. We need conviction in our hearts. this man taught me how to stay hopeful, because I now know that hopelessness is the enemy of justice. Hope allows us to push for word, even when the truth is distorted by the people in power. It allows us to stand when they tell us to sit down, and to speak when they say be quiet.

  • Bryan Stevenson: [in the US Senate Hearing on the Death Penalty] Through this work, I've learned that each of us is more than the worst thing that we've ever done; that the opposite of poverty isn't wealth, the opposite of poverty is justice; that the character of our nation isn't reflected on how we treat the rich and the privileged, but how we treat the poor, the disfavored, and condemned.

  • Bryan Stevenson: There's always something we can do. Whatever you did, your life is still meaningful.

Extended Reading
  • Ken 2022-04-21 09:02:51

    All the positive meanings are what the heart wants, very warm, sad and uplifting. The script is neat but lengthy, and all the expressions are conveyed. But the high scores for similar topics are really not rated.

  • Dariana 2022-03-27 09:01:13

    One out of every nine American prisoners is wronged, and this one is basically a black man! Black lawyers fought to the end for black prisoners to be released from prison, which is another justice that has nothing to do with the democratic system. 7