"It’s humiliating. A new ammendment we vote on declaring that I am equal under the law to a man. I am mortified to discover there is reason to believe I wasn’t before. I am a citizen of this country, I am not a special subset in need of your protection. I do not have to have my rights handed down to me by a bunch of old white men. The same article fourteen that protects you protects me and I went to law school just to make sure. And with that, I’m going back down to the mess, because I thought I may have seen there, a peach."
Ainsley Hayes on the Equal Rights Amendment, The West Wing (S02E18)
(Source: theokatzman, via aslowmotiondream)


