Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWe belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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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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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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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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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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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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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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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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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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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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