The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWe belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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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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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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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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 remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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