UC from RBG
September 22, 2020
- Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
- I am a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
- Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
- So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
- I see my advocacy as part of an effort to make the equality principle everything the founders would have wanted it to be if they weren’t held back by the society in which they lived and particularly the shame of slavery.
- I don’t say women’s rights—I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
- Justices continue to think and can change. I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow.
- So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today, but tomorrow.
- I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
- Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
- 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.
- 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.