I think our system is being polluted by money.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Words could paint pictures.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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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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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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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 emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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