A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen 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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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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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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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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Words could paint pictures.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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