Legislative / Political
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The wrong sorts of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sorts of people.
—Robert Ingersoll
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Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.
—Giulio Andreotti
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The object of power is power.
—George Orwell
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A law that is unjust is no law at all.
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Wherever the law is, crime can be found.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Constitution is whatever the right says it is
Why it took more than 100 years to get an anti-lynching bill
U.S. Constitution Articles I, IV, & V offered direct protection of slavery
The 13th Amendment’s exception clause still permits slavery
Toward full erasure of slavery from the Constitution
1,800+ congressmen owned human beings; who they were, and how they shaped the nation
“This is a country for white men”: White supremacy & U.S. politics
White supremacy in the US Capitol
The Electoral College is racist
The Electoral College’s racist origins & roots
White supremacy and the cruelty of compromise
The Senate is America’s most structurally racist institution
The racist history of the Senate filibuster · Another monument to white supremacy
A century of racial segregation: 1849–1950
The Constitution is for white people
The parts of the US Constitution that have aged least well
The Supreme Court case that enshrined white supremacy in law
The precedent for the Texas abortion law? The Fugitive Slave Act
The racist roots of the Second Amendment
The second amendment only protects white gun owners
What African Americans lost by aligning with the Democratic Party