Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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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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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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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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