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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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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Age: 87 †
Born: 1933
Born: March 15
Died: 2020
Died: September 18
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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Brooklyn
New York
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Joan Ruth Bader
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate in society and the political process.
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You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed
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Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. I had a life partner who thought my work was as important as his, and I think that made all the difference for me.
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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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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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Even the Declaration of Independence starts out all men are created equal, so I see my advocacy as part of an effort to make the equality principle everything the founders would have wanted it to be if they weren't held back by the society in which they lived and particularly the shame of slavery.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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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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One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when it exonerates itself from the impositions of the laws it obligates people outside the legislature to obey.
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When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge.
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I'm not very good at promotion.
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The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking the wherewithal to travel can't. There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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