Dissents speak to a future age.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGMy mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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An operatic voice is like no other.
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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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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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