I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGMy 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.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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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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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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Words could paint pictures.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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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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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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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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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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