Just Mercy: Justice Rolling Down Like Waters (Amos 5:24)

In Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson defends Walter McMillian, a Black man wrongly convicted of murder in Alabama. The system is rigged, the judge hostile, the town resistant. But Bryan persists. "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Amos prophesied against Israel's religious hypocrisy—worship without justice. Bryan embodies the prophetic tradition: justice isn't a one-time verdict but an ever-flowing stream requiring constant, exhausting work. The film doesn't end with simple victory; it ends with ongoing commitment. Justice doesn't roll down automatically—someone has to dig the channel.