If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGA 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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Work for the things that you care about.
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Words could paint pictures.
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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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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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