The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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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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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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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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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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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 will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Words could paint pictures.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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