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Deborah Rhode

"Ironically enough, if the case involves race, and one claims that race is a disqualifying factor, nobody could hear the case. Everybody comes to these cases with some preconceptions, and the premise of our judicial system is that judges by training and by ethical codes are obligated to set those prejudices aside and to decide on the facts and the law. And to claim that somebody can't simply because of their racial identity is deeply offensive."

Source : "What Would Brandeis Do?". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

Deborah Rhode

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“Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.”
“Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases.”
“I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.”
“We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of individual groups or people -be they indigenous peoples, or peoples of Asian or African or American descent, or Jews or Muslims- are not sacrificed on an altar of progress for some while there are setbacks to others.”
“Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it.”

Source : Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.112, Portobello Books
“I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be.”
“So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.”

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