You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWe belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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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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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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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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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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