When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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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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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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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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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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When 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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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