While Justice Sleeps

by Stacey Abrams

Knowing the law isn’t about the school. It’s about the mind. The heart. About understanding what the law intends as much as reading beneath what it says. Knowing how to find one’s way to the truth.”

Americans are greedy, brilliant, ambitious, and compassionate. We like to remind everyone about our genius, and yet our leaders make fun of smart people. In less than two centuries, we took over more than half a continent, placed a man on the moon, and invented the Clapper. I enjoyed the contrasts.”

“A nation of favor and folly, one might say. Where justice is known but rarely seen.

“Are you insane? Tell her Hygeia attempted to manufacture a genetic virus to kill Muslims—with research illegally funded by the U.S. government—and the successor corporation

now wants to take over my company? You don’t think this might damage our fucking merger?”

“A nation

of favor and folly. Where justice is known but rarely seen,” she murmured.

“Folly. A nation of folly. Seward Square,”