If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGChoosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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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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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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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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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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’m not very good at promotion.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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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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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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