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While Justice Sleeps QUOTES

While Justice Sleeps QUOTES

1 " Why American history? Other nations have achieved greatness with less hubris and narcissism."

"Agreed. But America is a contradictory and precocious country, sir. We have, in a very short period of time, managed to commit venal sins against our own people and offer the world repeat examples of exceptionalism. 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."

Wynn continued to watch her, with what Avery perceived as an ounce of amusement on his face. "A nation of favor and folly, one might say. Where justice is known but rarely seen. "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps

2 " Reputation was all you had when you’d been born without the relationships. "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps

3 " Don’t stand there holding the ball if a freight train’s headed for you. Can’t play in the second quarter if you’re dead. "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps

4 " Money and power make people irrational. "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps

5 " Not yet. "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps

6 " I worked for Homeland Security, Avery. We watch everything. Usually, though, no one watches us. "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps

7 " Fair Fight, Fair Count, "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps

8 " only thing worse than a tattletale was a person too afraid to tell the truth. "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps

9 " The ancestry tests are superficial, but they use a basic premise. The Y chromosome is transmitted from father to son largely without mutations, and it escapes recombination, so it has the best ability to show lineage.” Noah quipped, “Giving new meaning to ‘like father, like son.’  "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps

10 " Can I have your name, please?” “Celeste,” she whispered as the name popped into her head. “Ma’am?” Avery blinked. “What?” “I asked for your name, but I didn’t hear what you said.” He held up a cardboard cup and a marker. “Can you spell Selst for me? "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps

11 " Betty felt blood and pain, and for a moment, she felt his grip relax as he shifted to hold her arms in one hand. She started to scream again, but he shoved her head against the post a second time. When she struggled, kicking back at him, he trapped her legs with his and pushed something inside her mouth with his free hand. "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps

12 " Hygeia’s "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps

13 " One of these indignities she could take—but not all of them. "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps

14 " Despite years in American schools, she still barely understood the deep divisions between the Left and the Right in a country with so little to argue over. "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps

15 " Show man ignoble work and easy sex, and there went civilization. "

― Stacey Abrams , While Justice Sleeps