A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWomen’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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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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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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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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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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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 remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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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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One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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