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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Civility
Conflict
Manners
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If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Children
Example
Instill
Parent
Better Way
Children Parents Better
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It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Agree
Children
Issues
Want
Full-Time
Issue
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Hope
Politics
Glad
Vote
Years
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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.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Inspirational
Cases
Important
Thinking
I Am Important Will
Appointment
Woman
Important Thing
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If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Christian
Groups
Religious
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If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Jobs
Concern
Great Day
Thinking
Life Women Great
Badly
Mine
Stumbled
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Wise
Legal
Conclusion
Old Man
Said
Same
Woman
Old
End Of The Day
Issue
Reach
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Well, it's a little odd, the path I took, because when I was young, I wanted to be a cattle rancher. That was what I knew and that was what I liked.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Cattle
Odd
Path
Liked
Rancher
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Assurance
Commitment
Law
People
Rule Of Law
Basic
Unpopular
Expect
Popular
Provides
Rule
Whether
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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.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Learning
Best
Time
Bottom
Matter
May
Problem
Tasks
Unimportant
Person
More
Every
Best Time May
How
Learns
Seem
Task
Than
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The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Adherence
Community
Establishment
Political
Relevant
Standing
Clause
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I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Criticism
Decision
Thinking
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It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Belief
First Amendment
Firsts
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The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Resources
Results
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In terms of having the American people look at the court and think of it as being fair and appropriate for our nation, it helps to have women, plural, on the court.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Appropriate
Court
Women Look People
American People
Fair
Helps
Terms
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Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Competent
Court
Insecurity
Joy
Justice
Pleasure
Particularly
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I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Decision
Jail
Jail Time
Judging
Judge
Deem
Fair
He Or She
Impartial
Incorrect
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The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Clear
Constitution
Critical
Elsewhere
Federalist
Framers
Independent
Judiciary
Paper
Papers
Nation
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You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Citizens
Criticize
Ideas
No Idea
Things Happen
Works
Idea
Happen
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I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Alzheimer's
Decline
Disease
Heartbreaking
Husband
Take Care
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Politics
Compromise
Constitution
Framers
Majority
Might
Passing
Amendment
Embodied
Expedient
Measure
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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.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Ideas
People
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If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Agree
Constitution
Majority
Views
Explain
Persuade
Well Enough
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[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Decision
Past
Tough
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Education
Concerned
School
Teaching
Unfortunate
Years
Stopped
Nation
Increasingly
Lack
Recent
Recent Years
Schools
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So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food, and drink beer and make friends? That's the question. If we can do that on a broader scale, I think we'll come out of it all right.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Beer
Mexican
Thinking
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Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Cases
Court
Discretion
Nations
Reviews
Selecting
Virtually
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It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Another Woman
Court
Focus
Media
Too Much
Joined
Minute
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The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Persistence
Reality
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Graduation
Inspiring
Impact
Should Have
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Freedom
Criticism
Democracy
Destructive
Healthy
Intimidation
Judging
Officials
Problem
Public Officials
Replaced
Sanctions
Public
Judges
Necessary
Other
Vibrant
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I think people know very little, really, about the court, how it works and its history. And both of those things are important in our country, but they're not things that most citizens know much about.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Country
People
Thinking
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For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Different Kinds
Government Officials
Officials
Understanding
Unique
Branch
Functions
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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.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Encouraging
Women
Despite
Gains
Imbalance
Lifetime
Rooms
Wonderful
Advance
Changes
Correction
Deficiencies
Still
Occurred
Room
Promote
Remaining
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Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Answers
Church
Difficult Questions
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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.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Alone
Accomplish
Common Threads
Form
Happens
Individual
Kwanzaa
Tapestry
Teamwork
Whole
World
Life Alone World
Anything
Another
Creates
Whatever
Result
Something
Threads
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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. Thats set out in the Constitution.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Successful
Two
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Independence
Branches
Constitution
Democratic
Democratic Society
Matters
Ours
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Leadership
Citizenry
Ethnicity
Eye
Legitimacy
Path
Qualified
Race
Cultivate
Talented
Individuals
Visibly
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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.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Equality
Opportunity
Respect
Society
Ability
Advancement
Benefits
Climate
Gender
May
Persons
Race
Responsibility
Based
Earn
Regardless
Which
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In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called upon to decide. It provides the stability and continuity for the rule of law.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Issues
Law
Library
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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.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Appreciation
Smile
Women
History
Country
Real
Today
Young
Young Women
Little
Very
Much
Battles
Those
Often
How Much
Place
Took
Where
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Alternatives
Conflict
Country
Disputes
Resolution
Alternative
After
Considered
Begins
Methods
Places
Resolving
Tried
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What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Attention
Firsts
Media
Stressful
Tiresome
Everywhere
Appointment
Excessive
Sandra
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My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Comparison
Court
House
Nations
Special
World
Occupies
Regarded
Special Place
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The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is intended to intimidate. The First Amendment does not permit such a shortcut.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Burning
Doe
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I do not believe it is the function of the judiciary to step in and change the law because the times have changed. I do well understand the difference between legislating and judging. As a judge, it is not my function to develop public policy.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Believe
Law
Times Have Changed
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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.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Constitution
Done
Pool
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I finally gave up my little law practice and stayed home for about three years. You have to do what you can to keep the family going. But I wanted to get back to work. So I got another babysitter and went to work as an Assistant Attorney General.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Home
Law
Years
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