Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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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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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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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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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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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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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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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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