Category: Justice
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Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.
Sonia Sotomayor
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In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It’s called ‘Scalia/Ginsburg.’ The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life… it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I’ve never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it’s not modest at all. I have no right to complain.
Sonia Sotomayor
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The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I’d have to develop for myself.
Sonia Sotomayor
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My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can’t get out the vote in the midterm elections.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‘A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.’
Ruth Bader Ginsburg