Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

by Stacey Abrams

Because I learned long ago that winning doesn’t always mean you get the prize. Sometimes you get progress, and that counts.

We are strongest when we see the most vulnerable in our society, bear witness to their struggles, and then work to create systems to make it better.

Yet, when a structure is broken, we are fools if we simply ignore the defect in favor of pretending that our democracy isn’t cracking at the seams.

Let me be clear here: the codification of racism and disenfranchisement is a feature of our lawmaking—not an oversight. And the original sin of the U.S. Constitution began by identifying blacks in America as three-fifths human: counting black bodies as property and their souls as nonexistent.