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steve  ·  1304 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just died

All politics aside, we lost a national treasure when we lost RBG. I will forever be grateful for a woman who helped us all be a little better, for a person who championed women, individual rights, and justice. Have some quotes:

    My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

    People ask me sometimes... 'When will there be enough women on the court?' And my answer is, 'When there are nine.' People are shocked, but there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.

    I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

    Think back to 1787. Who were 'we the people'? … They certainly weren't women … they surely weren't people held in human bondage. The genius of our Constitution is that over now more than 200 sometimes turbulent years that 'we' has expanded and expanded.

    Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

    The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

    I tell law students… if you are going to be a lawyer and just practice your profession, you have a skill—very much like a plumber. But if you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself… something that makes life a little better for people less fortunate than you.