If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGBe independent and be a lady.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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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 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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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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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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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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