It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPeople who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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When 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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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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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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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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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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