Shannon

“Equality and fairness must meet the standards of our modern definitions of those ideals, or else the entire American experiment is illegitimate.”
― Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

“The downside of erasing history is that you lose what’s beautiful as well as what’s hard to bear.”
― Burkhard Bilger, Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets

“If we’re going to talk about the constitutional right to an abortion, we’re going to talk about it from first principles. And the first principle that the people who wrote the Constitution missed is that women are people. Full, equal, people. If you believe that, and I know a lot of men don’t, but if you believe that women are people, then the right to privacy and all the reproductive rights that flow from it is a fairly straightforward thing.”
― Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

“I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoiled things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it’s not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?”
― Malorie Blackman, Naughts & Crosses