It takes a hard working, compassionate lawyer with a talented team to make progress in delivering justice; In the novel Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, justice is a critical theme and important to understanding the novel. Equality is a major theme along with broken people deserve justice, and constantly working towards justice. Stevenson describes corruption, racism, cruelty, and the way they greatly affected American society at the time. These factors allowed the court systems to abuse people and accuse them solely because of their race or their financial status.

Stevenson placed a great amount of emphasis throughout his novel on the importance of equality. Without equality, many of Stevenson’s clients would have still been sitting in jail