Letter from Troy Davis: ’We need to dismantle this UNJUST system!’
Sep 21, 2011
I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to human rights
and human kindness, in the past year. I have experienced such emotion, joy,
sadness and never-ending faith. It is because of all of you that I am alive
today. As I look at my sister Martina I am marveled by the love she has for me
and of course I worry about her and her health, but as she tells me she is the
eldest and she will not back down from this fight to save my life and prove to
the world that I am innocent of this terrible crime.
As I look at my mail from across the globe, from places I have never ever
dreamed I would know about and people speaking languages and expressing
cultures and religions I could only hope to one day see first hand. I am
humbled by the emotion that fills my heart with overwhelming, overflowing Joy.
I can't even explain the insurgence of emotion I feel when I try to express
the strength I draw from you all; it compounds my faith and it shows me yet
again that this is not a case about the death penalty; this is not a case about
Troy Davis; this is a case about justice and the human spirit to see justice
prevail.
I cannot answer all of your letters, but I do read them all. I cannot see
you all but I can imagine your faces. I cannot hear you speak, but your letters
take me to the far reaches of the world. I cannot touch you physically, but I
feel your warmth every day I exist.
So thank you and remember I am in a place where execution can only destroy
your physical form but because of my faith in God, my family and all of you I
have been spiritually free for some time. And no matter what happens in the
days, weeks to come, this movement to end the death penalty, to seek true
justice, to expose a system that fails to protect the innocent must be
accelerated. There are so many more Troy Davises. This fight to end the death
penalty is not won or lost through me but through our strength to move forward
and save every innocent person in captivity around the globe. We need to
dismantle this unjust system city by city, state by state and country by
country.
I can't wait to stand with you, no matter if that is in physical or
spiritual form. I will one day be announcing,"I AM TROY DAVIS, and I AM
FREE!"
Never Stop Fighting for Justice and We Will Win!
Troy Davis
Sept. 10, 2011
