Political Quotes

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Quotes by year · 2007202239 total · peak 2020 (17)
2007: 1 quote2009: 2 quotes2010: 2 quotes2013: 1 quote2017: 4 quotes2018: 1 quote2019: 6 quotes2020: 17 quotes2021: 2 quotes2022: 3 quotes
Jun 23, 2022

Since Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court has limited -- there`s only been limitations. No extension of any right.

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Mar 20, 2022

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 sometimes become the dominant view.

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Nov 3, 2021

congressional correction of the Court's elevation of the FAA over workers' rights to act in concert is urgently in order.

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Jun 23, 2021

like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

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Oct 12, 2020

It is essential to women's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

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Oct 12, 2020

The decision whether or not to bare a child is central to a woman's life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself.

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Sep 25, 2020

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

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Sep 23, 2020

Women belong in all places where decisions are made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception.

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Sep 21, 2020

My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.

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Sep 21, 2020

generalizations about the way women are, estimates of what is appropriate for most women, no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description.

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Sep 21, 2020

All of the restrictions that we see in states like Texas operate only against poor women, the people are far from the big cities and couldn't afford to take a day off from work. Restrictive abortion laws operate against poor women. And…

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Sep 21, 2020

This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity. It's a decision that she must make for herself. And when government controls that decision for her, she's being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own…

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Sep 19, 2020

People ask me sometimes, when will there be enough women on the court. And my answer is when you're aligned.

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Sep 18, 2020

some of my favorite opinions are dissents. I will not live to see what becomes of them but I remain hopeful

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Sep 18, 2020

throwing out that law when it has worked and is continuing to work is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you're not getting wet

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Sep 18, 2020

My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.

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Sep 17, 2020

People ask me sometimes, 'When will there be enough women on the court?' And my answer is, 'When there are nine.'

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Sep 17, 2020

She actually became the Notorious RBG after her 2013 dissent in the case known as Shelby County versus Holder when the five justice conservative majority cut back on the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

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Sep 17, 2020

This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity.

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Sep 17, 2020

There's hundreds of thousands of women who are going to be deprived because of this decision of a benefit at work to which they're legally entitled.

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Sep 17, 2020

It contributes to the end of the days when women, at least half the talent pool in our society, appear in high places only as one-at-a-time performers.

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Oct 16, 2019

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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Sep 9, 2019

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously warned that the Supreme Court's decision striking down a part of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder was like 'throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm.'

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May 20, 2019

A congressional correction is urgently in order.

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