A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen 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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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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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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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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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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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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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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