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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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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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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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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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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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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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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I’m not very good at promotion.
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