Bryan Stevenson
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It can yield something redemptive.
It can yield something that
can feel healing almost.
So we were able to get him out of that facility that day and ultimately was able to get a resolution of the case where he got released.
After he got out, he got his high school degree, his GED.
Then he went to college.
He actually became an engineer.
He got married.
He has a beautiful family.
And I know the day of his release, it's the 11th, because on the 11th of every month for the last 18 years, at 8 a.m.
exactly,
This young man calls me and he says, hey, Mr. Brian, just want you to know I'm doing great and I love you.
Every month for 18 years.
And that's the beauty that comes out of reacting, responding to injustice when we see it, abuse when we see it.
And I can't quantify that.
The value that gives my life, the joy that gives me, it's priceless as far as I'm concerned.
And I think when we hold our children that are struggling, that are in places of despair, that have been traumatized, and we look for ways to make things better, there's a return on that.
It involves a man named Walter McMillan who was accused of killing a young white woman in Monroeville, Alabama.
And it is shocking in a lot of ways.