A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPeople who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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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 would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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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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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.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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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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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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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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