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What Vale didn’t know, he had absolutely no idea about, but what he did know was usually fascinating.
“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
“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
“People are people. We’ll always find a way to mess up, doesn’t matter who’s in charge.”
― Naughts & Crosses
― Naughts & Crosses
“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
“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?”
― Naughts & Crosses
― Naughts & Crosses
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