The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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