Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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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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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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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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