If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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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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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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