Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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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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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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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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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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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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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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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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