If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWho will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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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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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any 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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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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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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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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