If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIt is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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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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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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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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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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