Question

Just mercy begins with information about bryan stevenson growing up poor in a racially segregated community in delaware. he remembers his grandmother telling him, "you can't understand most of the important things from a distance, bryan. you have to get close" (14). how does stevenson get close to the incarcerated people he is helping

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: by working directly with low-income and incarcerated people for years

Seeing other people's trouble from different position tend to not provide us with full information regarding the cause of the situation. By putting himself in their shoes, Stevenson manage to understand the things that cannot be seen by outsiders, which make him become extremely closer to those people.