Just Mercy Quotes

“If we don't expect more from each other, hope better for each other, and recover from the hurt we've experienced, we are surely doomed.”
― Bryan Stephenson

“The bad things that happen to us don't define us. It's just important sometimes that people understand where we're coming from.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“My relatives worked hard all the time but never seemed to prosper. My grandfather was murdered when I was a teenager, but it didn't seem to matter much to the world outside our family.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“You've got to beat the drum for justice.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“No lie can live forever.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“Finally, and most important, I told those gathered in the church that Walter had taught me that mercy is just when it is rooted in hopefulness and freely given. 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. Walter genuinely forgave the people who unfairly accused him, the people who convicted him, and the people who judged him unworthy of mercy. And in the end, it was just mercy toward others that allowed him to recover a life worth celebrating, a life that rediscovered the love and freedom that all humans desire, a life that overcame death and condemnation until it was time to die on God’s schedule.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“As he walked to the car, Walter raised his arms and gently moved them up and down as if he meant to take flight. He looked at me and said, "I feel like a bird, I feel like a bird.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“The bad things that happen to us don't define us. It's just important sometimes that people understand where we're coming from.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
― Bryan Steveson

“I know that some have been through more than others. But if we don't expect more from each other, hope better for one another, and recover form hurt we experience, we are surely doomed.”
― Mrs. Jennings