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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?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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Justice Shake Speak Voice Women Empowerment
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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Belief Business People Profit Share Work
I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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Cook Feminism
Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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Freedom Law Number Profession Reveal Women
As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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Society Women Women Empowerment
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
A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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Advance Help Sense Of Humor Social Change
There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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Concern Constitution Poor Restriction Women
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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Constitution History Ignorance People Right Story
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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Favor Feet Neck Sex
It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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Answer Position
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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Advocate Change Constitution Equality Principle Realization Start
There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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Court Sleep
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
The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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Amendment Constitution Function Sense
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Control Deny Equality State Woman
Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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Agenda Essential Human Right Women Women Empowerment
The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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Argument Constitution Endure Oral
I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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Ability Inspirational Remember
Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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Background Diversity Experience Judge Law Rich System
So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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Fortune Greatness Life Regard
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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Court Equality Law Women Women Empowerment
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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Material Police Record
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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Change Endure Happen Time
One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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Fundamental Government Instrument Women Empowerment
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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