I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIn every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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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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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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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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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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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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