Ruth Bader Ginsburg on discrimination
“Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.”
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg 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.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg 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.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney I don’t judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they’re a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.
Diana RossDiana Ross These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.
Adam FletcherAdam Fletcher Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.
Adam FletcherAdam Fletcher Most of society’s decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.
Adam FletcherAdam Fletcher To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.
Adi ShankaraAdi Shankara
