Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGAs society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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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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 new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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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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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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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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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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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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