When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.
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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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