When he ascends to Heaven — in the only sensational moment of the evening, engineered by the director and by David Gallo's superb projection design — the set fragments before our eyes, as if caught in a vortex of time, and images of racial struggle and of those who have fought for justice sweep upward into the starry sky.
Still, his time in prison exposed him to what he came to see as the cynical cycle of American justice: sweep up young men, mostly from broken families in underprivileged neighborhoods, put them away for a while, send them back onto the streets with no skills, and repeat.
Days after that speech, the Brotherhood's party, Freedom and Justice, swept the elections for Egypt's Parliament, where they now appear to control about half of all seats.
Law and Justice swept into office on the back of support from many young Poles, who have adopted increasingly right-wing politics in recent years.
Appointed by his brother, who was installed in the Presidential Palace in the center of Warsaw in late 2005 when Law and Justice was swept into power, Jaroslaw embarked on policies aimed at purging the administration and public television of those they viewed as opposed to their hard-right values.
Two years ago, in the first round of judicial elections of the post-Citizens United era, three Iowa Supreme Court justices were swept from office by voters angered over the court's ruling upholding same-sex marriages.
To interpret the statute otherwise, the chief justice smiled, "would sweep in everything from the detergent under the kitchen sink to the stain remover in the laundry room", turning the poisoning of goldfish with "a few drops of vinegar" into an act of chemical combat.
During a lengthy interlude, Badu's monologue turned toward the justice movements that swept America's cities and campuses last year.
When Justice and Development Party swept to power last November, Mr. Erdogan was in the unusual position of heading the ruling party without being able to hold office.
In a preliminary victory for those challenging Theresa May's power to trigger Brexit, a high court judge, Mr Justice Cranston, has swept aside restrictions on publishing official documents before the hearing on 13 October.
The issue became a recurring theme of social justice protests that swept Israel in the summer of 2011, amid rising public anger over what many here saw as the disproportionate political influence of the ultra-Orthodox and the benefits they had managed to secure for themselves.
