the more I realized that believing in the human race is a serious responsibility, and a position that needs to be consciously created and constructed. It is not enough to affirm or declare the truth; one must really commit oneself to the
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“Equality and fairness must meet the standards of our modern definitions of those ideals, or else the entire American experiment is illegitimate.”
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
“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.”
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
“Thomas, and the rest of the conservatives, absolutely believe substantive due process exists; they just think the Fourteenth Amendment is hiding rights for businesses they think are people, instead of minorities they wish were not.”
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
“Why do some details become “history”—included in schoolbooks, in scholarly dissertations, or in personal narratives—while other details are forgotten? What scale of information do we accept when we say that we know something about the past?”
― Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
― Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
“Instead of going higher, instead of looking at the ideals the Reconstruction Amendments represent, originalists again try to hobble them by limiting them to what dead white people may have thought.”
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
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