A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWomen’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Be independent and be a lady.
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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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Words could paint pictures.
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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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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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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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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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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