Analysis Of We Need To Talk About Injustice By Bryan Stevenson

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Davis is emphasizing throughout her two lectures the importance of the lasting freedom from human beings. She also talks about how society’s dedication for freedom is so strong when ironically we have organizations who stop certain groups like class, race, gender, sexuality, etc. from being free. Furthermore, she’s intensely involved in her writing for social justice in our country. In “We need to talk about injustice” Bryan Stevenson mentioned how powerful and important for someone is. He mentioned his grandmother at the beginning of his speech and how much her experience as a slave had shaped her in how she saw the world. Furthermore, the imprisoning of her husband and the alcohol related death of Stevenson’s uncle had shaped her the way

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