People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThere is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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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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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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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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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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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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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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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