Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPromoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGNo one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWho will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI 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 GINSBURGReal change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGSo that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWords could paint pictures.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWomen will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG