An Analysis Of Bryan Stevenson's Imbaverty And Injustice

Imbalance and Injustice Bryan Stevenson gives a talk about social inequality as it relates to poverty and race. He is a lawyer, as well as the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization that works to fight inequalities in the criminal justice system. He has represented many clients, which he refers to as victims, facing life sentences or are awaiting their death sentence. He has represented many large cases and met many large figureheads of civil rights, such as Rosa Parks. He opens his talk by giving a story on his own life. He reminisces about his childhood, when he lived in a “typical African American household” with his grandmother as the dominant figure. He talks about who his grandmother his, all of her temperaments and the things he can remember about her. He also discusses the impact she had on his life, and some of the life lessons she taught him. Stevenson most likely opens with this piece to make an emotional connection with the audience, sprinkling in humor and real human emotion. He also uses this piece to provide foreshadowing for the rest of his presentation, as his grandmother’s impact on him is a part of his morals and standards today. I think this is an excellent start to his presentation, it allows him to reveal himself and make his message more meaningful. After that, he elaborates on his grandmother’s

He believes that a society is evaluated by how they treat the poor, the people truly in need of help. He believes that many places in the world treat those in need very unfairly. “The opposite of poverty is not wealth… in too many places, the opposite of poverty, is justice.” Stevenson only makes this a very brief point, he again does not elaborate very much. This is one of the many times he has bounced around from topic to topic, making several points with more room for interpretation rather than