Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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Words could paint pictures.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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