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00:16 - We welcome today Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:19 (acclamations)
00:21 - She's become such an icon.
00:24 - Would you mind signing this copy?
00:25 - I am 84 years old,
00:27 and everyone wants to take a picture with me.
00:29 (rires)
00:30 - Notorious... - RPG.
00:32 - Yeah, yeah.
00:33 - When you come right down to it,
00:34 the closest thing to a superhero, I know.
00:37 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg changed the way the world is
00:40 for American women.
00:43 - I became a lawyer when women were not wanted
00:46 by the legal profession.
00:48 - Thousands of state and federal laws
00:50 discriminated on the basis of gender.
00:53 She was following in the footsteps of the battle
00:56 for racial equality.
00:57 - We wanted equal protection for women.
01:00 - Men and women are persons of equal dignity,
01:03 and they should count equally before the law.
01:06 - She captured for the male members of the court
01:09 what it was like to be a second-class citizen.
01:11 - The point is that the discriminatory lie
01:13 almost inevitably hurts women.
01:15 - I did see myself as kind of a kindergarten teacher
01:18 in those days, because the judges
01:20 didn't think sex discrimination existed.
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01:25 - She is a center of power on and off the court.
01:29 - Every time Justice Ginsburg wrote a dissent,
01:31 the Internet would explode.
01:32 - I came up with a couple of slogans.
01:34 "You can't spell truth without Ruth."
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01:38 - I surely would not be in this room today
01:42 without the determined efforts of men and women
01:46 who kept dreams alive.
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01:54 - I've heard that she does 20 push-ups
01:56 three times a week or something.
01:57 I mean, we can't even get off the floor.
01:59 We can't even get down to the floor.
02:01 [both laughing]
02:02 - That's true.
02:03 [Rires]
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