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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 Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community. "
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" The experience I don't want to see repeated occurred in 'Bush v. Gore.' The Court divided five to four. There were four separate dissents, and that confused the press. In fact, some of the reporters announced that the decision was seven-two. There was no time to get together. "
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" I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the '80s and '90s. "
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" Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' "
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Think
" Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. "
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" The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see. "
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Sitting
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Men
" Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take. "
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Welcome
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" The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. "
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Control
Must
Right
" I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other. "
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Understand
Like
Respect
" It won't happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I'd love to see 'Citizens United' overruled. "
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Happen
Impossible
Love
" It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen. "
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Never
Want
You
" 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. "
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Man
Thought
Own
" 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. "
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Color
Judge
Look
" I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law. "
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Hope
Day
One Day
" I was a super once - an extra - in 'Die Fledermaus,' and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me. "
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Die
Beauty
Feet
" There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me... but a man like David Souter, that would be great. "
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Succeed
Women
Great
" Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny. "
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Protection
Destiny
Control
" How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle. "
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Lawyer
Alive
Men
" On the whole, we think of our consumers - other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it's better to have it clearer than confusing. "
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Think
Better
Law
" In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing. "
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Sad
Smart
Women
" The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. "
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Mean
Her
Equality
" Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. "
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Capital
Reason
Arizona
" Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade. "
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Persuade
Anger
Advance
" I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical. "
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Think
Magical
Marriage
" All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset. "
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Discrimination
Say
Upset
" Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he's very funny and very smart. "
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Smart
Together
Funny
" When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn't realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president. "
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Ambition
School
Woman
" All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. "
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Office
Respect
Power
" America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow. "
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America
Experience
Faith
" The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous. "
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Equality
Woman
School