Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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No 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.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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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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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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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 will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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