Category: Justice
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Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always – well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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No matter how liberal I am, I’m still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.
Sonia Sotomayor
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There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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If you’re poor, you don’t often live near a good school. If it’s a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.
Sonia Sotomayor
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There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action – to try to balance out those effects.
Sonia Sotomayor
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When you come from a background like mine, where you’re entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation’s finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.
Sonia Sotomayor