Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes - Page 3

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• One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women. They know there are no closed doors anymore, and they may take for granted the rights that they have.

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  Men, Rights, Doors

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• If I resign any time this year, he [President Obama] could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court. ... [A]nybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they're misguided.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Thinking, Years, Law

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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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  People, Belief, Share

  Source: newrepublic.com

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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.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Law, People, Political

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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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  Women, Thinking, Justice

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• Work hard on each opinion, but once the case is decided, don't look back; go on to the next case and give it your all. It's not productive to worry about what's out and released, over and done. That's advice I now give to people new to the judging business.

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  Hard Work, People, Giving

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• There are just a host of problems born by the electronic age. Things we couldn't even conceive of. I was amused by the analogy that Justice Scalia made in a case about a GPS tracker so you don't know that's being done to your car, is that a violation of your right to protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. So Justice Scalia imagines a constable clinging to the bottom of a carriage as it went on its way, so there was some notion that this similar: there is an official eye that's on you, but you don't know about it. Yes, there are all kinds of challenges.

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  Eye, Gps, Justice

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• Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Opportunity, Government, Law

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

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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.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Long, Judging, Singers

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• Dissents speak to a future age.

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  Age, Speak, Dissent

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy W. Williams (2016). “My Own Words”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Equality, Men, Choices

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• Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

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  Prison, Should, Quarters

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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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  Mean, Abortion, Tragedy

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• You can't have it all, all at once. Who—man or woman—has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

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  Caring, Men, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Hobby Lobby Dissent". Interview with Katie Couric, www.yahoo.com. July 30, 2014.

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• The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does. ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Mean, Eugenics, Impact

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thinks This Justice Is Responsible For Halting Access To Abortions" By Sam Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2014.

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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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  Umbrella, Throwing, Rainstorms

  "Shelby County v. Holder". Dissenting, United States Supreme Court case, 2013.

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• In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States.

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  United States, Adequate, Judgment

  "Justice Ginsburg's Dissent". www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2000.

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• If you ask judges, do you always agree on everything? Of course not, we divide just as you do. Why aren't you transparent about it? Because the people would begin to think that the law is not stable, the law is unclear. And that would not give them much faith in the law.

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  Thinking, Law, People

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• Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.

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  Law, Would Be, Welcome

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• ...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination, but also to counteract discrimination's lingering effects. Those effects, reflective of a system of racial caste [legal segregation and discrimination] only recently ended, are evident in our work places, markets, and neighborhoods. Job applicants with identical resumes, qualifications, and interview styles still experience different receptions, depending on their race.

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  Jobs, Persistence, Race

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• ..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the rule of law and respect for human dignity.

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  Respect, Law, Organization

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• I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Court

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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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  Ambition, School, Law

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg on becoming ‘Notorious’". "NewsHour Bookshelf" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. October 10, 2016.

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• My own view, and I've said this many times, is as long as I can do the work full steam, I will stay on the Court. But when I feel myself slipping, when I slow down in my ability to write opinions with fair dispatch, when I forget the names of cases that I once could recite at the drop of a hat, I will know it is time for me to go.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Writing, Views, Names

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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

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Running, Law, People

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