Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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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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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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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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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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