Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Years, United States, Looks

• 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.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  War, Women, Doe

• I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Principles, Realization, Constitution

• A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Mean, People, Important

  "Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Talks Constitution, Women And Liberty On Egyptian TV" By Mike Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2012.

• 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.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Reality, Rights, Texas

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pens Scathing Dissent On Texas Voter ID Law" By Braden Goyette, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2014.

• 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 Ginsburg

  Rights, People, Stories

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2016). “My Own Words”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

• Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment Clause was designed to preclude.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Religious, Risk, Establishment Clause

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