People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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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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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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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