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If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.

Sandra Day O'Connor

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
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Eye Leadership Race
I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.
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Cases Constitution Law
(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
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Atheism Firsts Religion
I don’t think it’s the court’s perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.
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Nature Political Roles Thinking
My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.
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Country House Special System World
If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.
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Christian Groups Religious
It is a measure of the framers’ fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
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Majority might Politics Value
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.
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Borders Country Looks
We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.
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Approved Today Use Years
I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don’t know how many you’re going to be given.
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Appreciate Gratitude Thinking
Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn’t a group decision.
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Clerks Decision Justice
If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.
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Great Day Jobs Thinking
I like to think that the court will continue to be held in high regard by the public. I think it should be.
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Court Regard Thinking
I think it’s inevitable that some of the court’s decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.
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Criticism Decision Thinking
If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness – and there is no better way to do that than by example – their children will probably follow.
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Children Example Parent
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
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Family Nature Women

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