A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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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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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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