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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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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
Judge
Lawyer
Brooklyn
New York
RBG
Notorious RBG
Joan Ruth Bader
Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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The Second Amendment has a preamble about the need for a militia. Because there is a need for a militia to be at the ready, therefore the right to keep and bear arms must be secured.
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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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It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
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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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Congress could always stop the President if Congress thinks that what the President has done exceeds the President's authority or is just wrong for the United States.
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Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.
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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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Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.
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It's great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.
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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say we want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.
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