Category: Justice
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I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I’m talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.
Sonia Sotomayor
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Whatever final judgment awaits ‘Bush v. Gore’ in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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We apply law to facts. We don’t apply feelings to facts.
Sonia Sotomayor