I’d say anyone who cares about Justice should watch this. A great movie based on true story, taking you on an emotional roller-coaster, and looking at lives of people with colour living in Alabama.

Couple of my favourite quotes, the first is by the Harvard graduate attorney Brian Stevenson, who is the main character of this film and the person who worked his ass off to make changes for many including Walter Johnny B McMillan who was sentenced to death for the notorious murder of a 18 year old white girl (which is the main case of this movie):

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 disfavoured, and condemned.

And this second quote is from someone who was on death row for 30 years for a crime that he did not commit, eventually Stevenson got him out of jail:

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

I have to admit that this resonates well with a lot of things I’ve been doing recently in the school, “fighting against” the majority for the minorities who are from the lower socio-economic, people of colour, LGBTQ+. It reminds me about how changes can be hard, and how we can’t just give up because we failed the first, second or third times, how it takes time and sometimes we have to do it even if we might not see what we want to see during our life time. Because someone, somewhere, have to start, sooner than later.