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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

Type:
Judge Quotes
Category:
American Judge Quotes
Date of Birth:
March 15, 1933
Nationality:
American
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Dissents speak to a future age.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Extra hard not to die in the near future.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It is not like I have gone crazy,I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It's almost like a trust that we are bound to preserve the institution and give it to our successors in the same good condition that we received it.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg


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