Category: Justice
-
In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
-
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.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
-
My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.
Sonia Sotomayor
-
Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.
Sonia Sotomayor
-
How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
-
We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
-
The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
-
You can’t be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.
Sonia Sotomayor
-
When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to lead to certain results in certain situations. And so people seem to think this predictability is based on some kind of partisan political view. But it’s not.
Sonia Sotomayor
-
We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‘We, the people.’
Ruth Bader Ginsburg