A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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 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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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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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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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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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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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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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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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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