A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWork for the things that you care about.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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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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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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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