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RUTH BADER GINSBURGIt’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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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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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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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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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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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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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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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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