TED Talk: Bryan Stevenson k about an injustice Bryan A. Stevenson is the founder
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TED Talk: Bryan Stevenson k about an injustice Bryan A. Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a private, non-profit organization headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, and is a professor at New Yoirk University School of Law. He has gained national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and minorities in the criminal justice system. Stevenson has assisted in securing rellef for dozens of condemned prisoners, advocated for poor people and developed community-based reform litigation aimed at improving the administration of criminal justice. What 3 things did he have to promise his grandmother and what did they have to do with identity? What is he trying to say about identity as it relates to his audience? What social factor is more likely to shape our outcomes? Did terrorism in the US start after 9/11/2001? According to Stevenson, When did it begin? He mentions the "mind/heart connection"; what does it compel us to do? What did Vaclav Havel feel we really needed in life more than anything else? How did Rosa Parks size up his work and what did Johnnie Carr say he must be? Ultimately, how will our society be judged? What is the opposite of poverty, according to Brian Stevenson? How should we handle those convicted of non-violent crime if not through incarceration? Bonus: What did he mean by his stotement about the "moral arc of the universe"?Explanation / Answer
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3 things:
2) Creating impacts around the world
3) incarceration
4) NO. era of terrorism, of course, was followed by segregation and decades of racial subordination and apartheid
5) compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzly things, but also the dark and difficult things
6) we needed was hope, an orientation of the spirit, a willingness to sometimes be in hopeless places and be a witness
7) Carr - you've got to be brave
8) By how the society treat the poor, the condemned, the incarcerated
9) Justice
10) making them give those resources back to the people who they victimized
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