Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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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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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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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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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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