“Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.”
Florence Ellinwood Allen (1884-1966) – the first woman to sit on a state supreme court (Ohio in 1922) and the first to become Chief Judge on a United States Court of Appeals (1959). Harry Truman blocked her supporters’ bid to get her onto the United States Supreme Court as he was opposed to a woman sitting on the highest court of the land.
Source: This Constitution of Ours, 1940
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