Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

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• We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

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  Teamwork, Kwanzaa, Common Threads

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• Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

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  Time, Learning, Tasks

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• I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

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  Inspirational, Thinking, Important

  "Women in Business: Dr. Andrea Klemes, Chief Medical Officer, MDVIP" by Laura Dunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2015.

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• We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.

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  Life, Kwanzaa, World

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• Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

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  Responsibility, Opportunity, Equality

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• Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Conflict, Civility, Manners

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• Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Inspiring, Graduation, Impact

  "Gettysburg College Graduation Speech". www.seventeen.com. April 6, 2018.

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• I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last.

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  Wonderful

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.

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  Jobs, Good Day, Cutting

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• The fact is that knowledge about the Constitution and the Court is not something that is handed down through the gene pool; every generation has to learn it. And I'm not sure the recent generations have done that good a job of learning about it.

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  Done, Constitution, Pool

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

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  Argument, Gender, Court

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• Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.

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  Independent, Judging, People

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• The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.

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  Law, Roles, Judiciary

  New York Times, February 23, 1984.

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• The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

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  Ideas, Government, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

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  Children, Principles, Needs

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• Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

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  Imbalance, Rooms, Gains

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• Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

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  Country, Appreciation, Real

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• I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.

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  Gratitude, Thinking, Appreciate

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• This chance will stand before you only once.

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  Women, Empowering, Chance

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• As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

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  Voting, Needs, Citizens

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• The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

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  Judging, Healthy, Democracy

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.

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• I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

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  Progress, Arizona, Care

  "Case Closed". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.motherjones.com. March 16, 2009.

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• Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

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  Doubt, Liberty, Jurisprudence

  Planned Parenthood v. Casey (joint opinion) (1992). Coauthored with Anthony M. Kennedy and David H. Souter.

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• How dare you make my life a felony.

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  Gay, Lgbt, Dare

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• The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even for the benefit of the public officials governing the States. To the contrary, the Constitution divides authority between federal and state governments for the protection of individuals.

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  Government, Political, Doe

  New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992), June 19, 1992.

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