Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
RUTH BADER GINSBURGEvery girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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Words could paint pictures.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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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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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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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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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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