Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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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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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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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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