When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPromoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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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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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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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Be independent and be a lady.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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