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Sandra Day O'Connor

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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. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Children
#Education
#Good
#Need
#Values
A moment of silence is not inherently religious. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Inherently
#Moment
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#Silence
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Eyes
#Leadership
#Open
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Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Experience
#Job
#Us
#Values
#Whatever
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. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Decide
#I Am
#Important
#Will
#Woman
As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Express Yourself
#Know
#Voting
#Yourself
I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate. - Sandra Day O'Connor
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I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job. - Sandra Day O'Connor
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A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens. - Sandra Day O'Connor
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#Check
#Nation
#Rights
#War
I need to retire from retirement. - Sandra Day O'Connor
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#Retire
#Retirement
The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Abortion
#I Am
#Me
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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. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Criticism
#Democracy
#Freedom
#Judges
The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Begins
#Country
#End
#Places
#Tried
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. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Best
#Matter
#Person
#Task
#Time
Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Commitment
#Know
#Law
#People
#Time
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender. - Sandra Day O'Connor
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It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Compromise
#Constitution
#Fear
#Politics
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Hope
#Me
#Politics
#Street
#Work
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Difficult
#Liberty
#Politics
#Serious
I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Day
#End Of The Day
#Legal
#Man
#Wise
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Government
#Independence
#Society
#Three
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Amendment
#Concern
#Core
#History
#Were
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Family
#More
#Person
#Understanding
#You
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. - Sandra Day O'Connor
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#Life
#Result
#Whatever
#World
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. - Sandra Day O'Connor
#Gender
#Opportunity
#Respect
#Society
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