♪♪♪ Tell me everything that happened. <i> The first time</i> <i> I visited death row. .
. </i> <i> I wasn't expecting to meet somebody the same age as me. </i> <i> From a neighborhood just like ours.
</i> <i> Could've been me, Mama. </i> But what you're doing is gonna make a lot of people upset. <i> You always taught me to fight for the people</i> <i> who need the help the most.
</i> Your life is still meaningful. . .
and I'm gonna do everything possible to keep them from taking it. You don't know what you into down here in Alabama. When you're guilty from the moment you born.
-Guard. -Mr McMillian. .
. We done here! Mr McMillian, please.
I was just about to give up. . .
when I got a call from a Harvard lawyer. . .
looking to start a legal center for inmates on death row. <i> I was in before you even</i> <i> offered me the job. </i> -You the lawyer?
-Yes, ma'am. Thank you so much for driving all the way out here. Most lawyers barely make time to call.
I can't believe you talked to all my people and said you gonna fight for me. I did. That mean a lot.
If you go digging in those wounds. . .
you're gonna be making a lot of people very unhappy. When people care about a thing that much, they'll do anything to get what they want. When I first learned about all of this.
. . it was like looking at a river full of drowning people.
. . and not having any way of helping them.
You ain't quitting, is you? No, sir. <i> Each of us is more than the worst thing</i> <i> that we've ever done.
</i> I know what it's like to be in the shadows. ♪♪♪ This is my dad. He ain't do nothing wrong.
<i>It's never too late for justice. </i> You're the only one who cared enough to fight for me. <i> If we can look at</i> <i> ourselves closely.
. . </i> <i> we can change this world</i> <i> for the better.
</i> <i> We all need grace. </i> We all need mercy. I got my truth back.
You gave that to me. <i> And ain't nobody gonna take that from us.
