Tag: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can’t get out the vote in the midterm elections.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‘A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.’
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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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
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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.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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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
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We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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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
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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
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Remember that before ‘Roe v. Wade’ was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that’s what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg