I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWe belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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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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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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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’m not very good at promotion.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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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