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Truly, if we are recognizing
those values and those virtues,

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then the passing of Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, is a time that calls

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upon Americans to pause and
recognize her extraordinary

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life. She was a woman of small
physical stature. But she was

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truly a giant amongst us. Even
before her years as a Supreme

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Court justice, she champion the
rights of Americans. And the

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ideals that we hold so dear, she
advanced the cause of liberty

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and equality. And the
understanding, as it says,

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literally on the Supreme Court
wall, equal justice under law.

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This spirit that she fought for
was buttressed by her massive

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intellect and her Aquaman and
her skill and her strategy that

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was seen in her career as a
lawyer as well as her opinions

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and work as a justice. Now, she
understood more or as much as

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anyone, that the decisions of
the Supreme Court literally have

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a profound impact on the daily
lives of Americans. That the

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decisions of the Supreme Court
will affect them the most

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fundamental ideals, it could
mean the difference between life

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or death, the difference between
economic security and economic

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ruin the difference between
environmental protection and

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devastation. It affects not just
the balance of power in

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institutions like the Senate,
but also the balance of people's

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lives and their well beings at
their kitchen table. She knew

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that our laws are tools through
which we could either make our

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nation live up to its promise
for all or fall further away

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from them.