The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPeople who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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.
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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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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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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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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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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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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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