We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIt’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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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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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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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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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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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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