I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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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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