Political Quotes

“in the Jewish tradition, only a person of great righteousness dies at the end of the year, near Rosh Hashanah, because God determined that they were needed until the very end. On Friday evening, shortly after the sundown on the eve of the Jewish New Year, we learned that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg--a woman of great righteousness, a woman of valor--passed away. She was many things to many people: a brilliant mind, a quick wit, a lover of the opera, a friend, a colleague, a workout guru, a feminist icon. She might be the only Supreme Court Justice to become a meme. What began as a joke, ``the Notorious RBG''--likening a legendary rapper to an octogenarian jurist--struck a chord of deep resonance in American society because Ruth Bader Ginsburg was, in fact, a rebellious force to be reckoned with. In a male-dominated legal establishment that wasn't waiting for someone like Ruth to shake up the system, she elbowed her way through. Her brains, her strength, her fortitude changed the world for women long before the rest of the world caught up. Over the course of two decades, as an academic and general counsel for the ACLU, Ruth worked to challenge the foundations of the legal system that had long treated women as a group that had to be ``protected''--and thus excluded--from full participation in American life.…”