“The Constitution doesn’t enforce itself,” he says. Then he glances at his notes, rewinds, and widens the frame. “Silence doesn’t assemble itself—and neither does resistance.”
Outside the hall, his phone buzzes. Another red dot.
The van kept rolling.
The state engineers silence. The neighborhoods compose a chorus.
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