Category: Justice
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I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Dissents speak to a future age.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‘Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.’
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I was a proponent of the ERA.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Oh my God, I don’t think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.
Sonia Sotomayor