Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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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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