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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.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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
You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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Gay Marriage
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
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
Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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Allow Liberty Majority Promotion
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.
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Democracy Money
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Control Deny Equality State Woman
We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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Discrimination Group History Object
Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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Door Dreams Help Life Reading Success True
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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Independence Lady Mother Person
It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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Liberation Men Women
Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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Battle Believe Bridge Burn Inspirational Work
Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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Alive Born Boy Girl Liberty
We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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Community Leadership Learning Sake Way
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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Change Endure Happen Time
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

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