The Opposite Of Poverty Is Justice Analysis

Stevenson conclusion: “The opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice” (Stevenson 18) is formulated due to his extensive work with low-income and incarcerated people. Stevenson persuaded this idea through a lot of the cases and examples used throughout the book. For example, one of the first cases described was the Walter McMillian’s case. Walter had scarcely been in trouble with the law, but because of an affair with a white woman he got into major trouble. McMillian, who cut timber for a living, was vulnerable to prosecution. Just because he was colored, and was poor he was wrongfully accused, and eventually convicted, of the death of a young white woman. This shows that if McMillian have hadn’t been poor, he would