Shannon

“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

“People are people. We’ll always find a way to mess up, doesn’t matter who’s in charge.”
― Malorie Blackman, Naughts & Crosses

“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

“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