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 GINSBURGSo that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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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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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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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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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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