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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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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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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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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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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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