Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburgis an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justiceand one of three female justices currently serving on the Supreme Court...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth15 March 1933
CountryUnited States of America
Ruth Bader Ginsburg quotes about
crazy gone want
It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
running freedom mean
Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate in society and the political process.
adequate united-states judgment
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. I dissent.
respect law organization
..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.
prison quarters should
Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
badass law one-day
I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
eugenics growth population
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.
thinking justice female
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.
gay two saying-no
You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
religious organization community
Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.
caring men thinking
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.
family inspiring women
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
answers might cases
My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
religious risk establishment-clause
Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment Clause was designed to preclude.