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“We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'”

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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

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I think our system is being polluted by money,

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We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

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The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American.…

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One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes…

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