My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
RUTH BADER GINSBURGA sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
-
-
It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Be independent and be a lady.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
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 GINSBURG -
You can’t have it all, all at once.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG