In my opinion, there’s not a thing wrong with the ideals and mechanisms outlined and the liberties set forth in the Constitution of the United States. The only problem was, the founders left a lot of people out of the Constitution. They left out poor people and black people and female people. It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. And it still goes on today.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]

Essay (1987-09-11), “We the People,” Texas Observer
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Collected in Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? (1991).