I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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