A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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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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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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