Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGMy mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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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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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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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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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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