Category: Justice
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I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren’t always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself – at the optimism and hope – you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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It’s a facet of the gay rights movement that people don’t think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn’t until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana’s ‘head and master rule,’ that the husband was head and master of the house.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor
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An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke – although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.
Sonia Sotomayor