Ruth Bader Ginsburg Freedom Of Speech Quotations

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.