"I would like to be remembered as someone who used her talent for the reconstruction of society, a reconstructor of society to make it a little better than she found it."

"I think that the court should be a place where justice is dispensed fairly."

"Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet."

"I think the notion that we have all the answers and that we are going to write the opinion for the ages is just not right."

"The law, as I see it, is a tool to achieve justice."