Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
RUTH BADER GINSBURGReacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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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 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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