When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWomen’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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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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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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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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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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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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