Ruth Bader Ginsburg Zitate auf Englisch

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At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' 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

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It won't happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I'd love to see 'Citizens United' overruled.

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

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I really concentrate on what's on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Dissents speak to a future age.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they're men or women.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always - well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women's movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I thought 'Heller' was a very bad decision.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

'Whole Women's Health' made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think some of my colleagues' spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg