If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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An operatic voice is like no other.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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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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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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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 think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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