I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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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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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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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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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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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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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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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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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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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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