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

“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

“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.”
― Elie Mystal, 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?”
― Glenn Kurtz, Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film