America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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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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An operatic voice is like no other.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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