I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGAmerica is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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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 can’t have it all, all at once.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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