People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGNo 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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I’m not very good at promotion.
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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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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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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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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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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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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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Dissents speak to a future age.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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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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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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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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An operatic voice is like no other.
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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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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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