“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.”

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.

There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.

We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

Be independent and be a lady.

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.

I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.

You can’t have it all, all at once.

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

In a democracy, there should be representation from every field.

Vegetarian food is actually good for the body.

Winning and losing have their significance in a democracy. But there should be no arrogance in victory, nor should there be any despondency in defeat.

The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, – this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society

Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.