A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWork for the things that you care about.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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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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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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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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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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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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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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