There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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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Dissents speak to a future age.
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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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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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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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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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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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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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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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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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