Bryan Stevenson’s speech was an inspiration for everyone, his story was filled with personal anecdotes that represent everything that he stands for. He’s the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, which combats unfair sentencing and tackles the issue of discrimination. Throughout his lecture he mentioned several ways in which he has overcome the bias in the criminal justice system against African-Americans, being specially inclined in children and death row convicts. All of his anecdotes were made my skin shiver, from the time that he sat in Harvard law, expecting people to talk about the injustices and then realizing that no one was talking about it, to how he believes that the United States should change the narrative, like Germany did with the Holocaust. Three stories moved my heart and made me fully grasp the world, the injustices and the role of the criminal justice system. First, his first death row inmate, the way that he saw how the guards mistreated him, even after Bryan’s attempt to make them stop, blaming himself for spending too much time talking to the prisoner. Bryan’s voice changed, and he began talking beyond his heart, and you could see how the image of the prisoner laying his head back, and readjusting his feet to the ground, started singing. The way he spoke about it truly exposed how this…show more content… The child, 14 years old, lived in an abusive home, and one night, his mother’s boyfriend became drunk, and hit her unconsciously, making her bleed badly. The boy’s first instinct was to think his mother was dead, and proceeded to call 911, but he never got to dial the numbers. The boy remembered that there was a handgun in the dresser, and in a reckless act, shot the boyfriend dead. As Stevenson told, this kid had never been in trouble before, had no prior juvenile charges, and should have been tried for juvenile, if not for the fact that the mother’s boyfriend was the
