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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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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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Constitution Freedom Important Liberty People
There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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Concern Constitution Poor Restriction Women
A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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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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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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Decision Deep Man Wise Woman Women Empowerment
You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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Democracy Money
When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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Dangerous Extreme Power
Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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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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