A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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