Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

Words could paint pictures.
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Book Deep Paint Picture Word Writing
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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Constitution History Ignorance People Right Story
Work for the things that you care about.
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Care One Liner Work
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Death Penalty People Represent Trial
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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Change Endure Happen Time
Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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Achievement Equality Generation Men Responsiblity Women Empowerment
Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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Decision Exception Place Women Women Empowerment
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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Court Equality Law Women Women Empowerment
I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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Change Daughter Father Perception
Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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Afraid Charge Enjoyment Happiness Inspirational Sense Of Humour Work
Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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Conviction Criminal Deprive Devasting Parents Status
A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Important Liberty People
At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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Decision Deep Man Wise Woman Women Empowerment
It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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Chance Crazy Gone Risk
Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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Choose Convey Difference Enormous Ideas Image Inspirational
There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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Concern Constitution Poor Restriction Women
We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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Accommodation Celebration Difference Diversity Profit Society Togetherness Understand
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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Abortion Control Emphasis Privacy Reproduction Right
It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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Court Hard
Be independent and be a lady.
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Independence Lady One Liner Women Empowerment
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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Citizen Constitution Equality Men Provision War Women
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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Advocate Change Constitution Equality Principle Realization Start
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Control Deny Equality State Woman
A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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Cage Equality Gender Help Women
Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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Allow Liberty Majority Promotion
You can’t have it all, all at once.
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Believe One Liner
Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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Discrimination Prison Separate

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