Ruth Bader Ginsburg I Dissent Quote Quotes

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Rabbi Alfred Bettleheim once said: "Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Be independent and be a lady. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer's job better than any other. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. ~ 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

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. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I don't say women's rights - I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

How to be Like RBG:
Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don't burn your bridges. Don't be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
-Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Notorious RBG by
Irin Carmon ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970. ~ 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

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Cushman, who assigned her to research McCarthy's assault on civil liberties, "wanted me to understand two things," Ruth recalls. "One is that we were betraying our most fundamental values, and, two, that legal skills could help make things better, could help to challenge what was going on. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation? ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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. ~ 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

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing - to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience. ~ 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

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is good people immediately perceive race discrimination as evil and intolerable. But when I talked about sex-based discrimination, I got the response, 'What are you talking about? Women are treated ever so much better than men! ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Generalizations about the "way women are" and 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. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

He 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. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true. ~ 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

We children of public school age can do much to aid in the promotion of peace. We must try to train ourselves and those about us to live together with one another as good neighbors for this idea is embodied in the great new Charter of the United Nations. It is the only way to secure the world against future wars and maintain an everlasting peace. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom. ~ U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Tim Tebow has been on the bench longer than Ruth Bader Ginsburg. ~ David Letterman

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. ~ 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

Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot. ~ David Letterman

[Belva] Lockwood sought more than suffrage. She urged full political and civil rights for all women. Though she could not vote for president, she twice ran for the office herself, pointing out that nothing in the Constitution barred a woman's candidacy. (She took that bold step 124 years before Hillary Rodham Clinton first became a contender for the Democratic Party's nomination.) Explaining why she entered the race, she wrote in a letter to her future running mate, Marietta Stow: 'We shall never have equal rights until we take them, nor equal respect until we command it. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I hope, in my years on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and the courage to remain constant in the service of that demand. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

They're not a question of additional benefits. I mean, they touch every aspect of life. Your partner is sick. Social Security. I mean, it's pervasive. It's not as though, well, there's this little Federal sphere and it's only a tax question. It's as Justice Kennedy said, 1100 statutes, and it affects every area of life. And so he was really diminishing what the State has said is marriage. You're saying, no, State said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim milk marriage. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was before us in 1993, she said that her standard was to give no hints, no forecasts, no previews, and declined to answer dozens of questions. ~ Orrin Hatch

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face. ~ Conan O'Brien

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg came in front of the Senate and was approved 96-3 to be on the Supreme Court to replace conservative justice Byron White. This is in 1993.Now, Justice Ginsburg, it was noted earlier, was a general counsel for the ACLU, certainly a liberal group. It was abundantly clear during the confirmation hearing that Ginsburg would swing the balance of the court to the left.But because President [Bill] Clinton won the election and because Justice Ginsburg clearly had the intellectual ability and integrity to serve on the court, she was confirmed. ~ Sam Brownback

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. ~ Donna Leon

[Ruth Bader] Ginsburg, the former women's rights advocate, made sure the nation knew she was there, even if alone. When President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress for the first time in February 2009, Ginsburg was recovering from pancreatic cancer and chemotherapy treatments, but she dragged herself to the evening event and sat with her brethren. She said she wanted to make sure that people watching the nationally televised address saw that the Supreme Court had at least one woman. ~ Joan Biskupic

Golf sits in that beautiful junction between perfection and frustration. ~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

Sometimes, beyond all else, should be a true passion and investment in driving the result and a lack of fear associated with making it happen. ~ Colleen Bader

Great success doesn't come without a little bit of risk. ~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me. ~ Elena Kagan

Leadership is like parenthood; just when you think you've got it all figured out, they become teenagers. ~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

The Power of Many will Always Exceed The Power of One. ~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

I have spent my entire lifetime trying to figure out how to connect work and passion. When I finally figured it out, life became so much more beautiful! ~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

Leaders should be leading, not hunting around in the weeds for land mines. ~ Michael Bader

I hope you're golfing today. ~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

Forget the clock. It has no power over time. ~ Ruth Ozeki

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable. ~ James Surowiecki

don't be afraid of back stabbing if you have true friends behind you ~ Wesam Bader

don't be a backseat driver. Instead, quietly recite mantras of protection. For example: "You're going to get us all killed. ~ David M. Bader

I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me ~ Douglas Bader

Sometimes being a good parent is admitting that you weren't a perfect parent. ~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

I like playing a guy who wears pants as opposed to shorts. ~ Diedrich Bader

Perhaps why I am so uniquely terrible is simply that I represent total Dissent. Total Dissent. T.D. 19 + 4 = 23. ~ William S. Burroughs

Self doubt,
It sneaks up on you like a cat burglar. Chase it out of your head like a crazy homeowner with a bat – there's nothing good that comes from letting thieves into your house. Self doubt is not your reality – it's your fear. ~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target. ~ Douglas Bader

When you finally learn that you are not the smartest person in the room- you will build a better product, have better relationships, and eliminate wasted time. ~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent. ~ Sherry Turkle

I'm a novelist," Ruth said. "I can't help it. My narrative preferences are all I've got. ~ Ruth Ozeki

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust ... We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better. ~ Thurgood Marshall

I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysenery. ~ Woody Allen

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became. ~ Douglas Bader

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. -Babe Ruth ~ Babe Ruth

Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't have it all - they just don't have the juice to figure it out. ~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

I love the word 'dream.'
For some, it's something that's completely unattainable, yet for others, completely attainable.

Choose your definition wisely. ~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma. ~ Camille Paglia

I understand the principles of dissent in parliament. ~ Jeremy Corbyn

Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters. ~ Diedrich Bader

We have three big shows on Sunday, so there will be pressure to spread the wealth. ~ David A. Bader

Back from where? you're not going out again and leaving me here are you?? Holy Hercules I sound like somebody's wife ~ Ruth Downie

Sensuality does not understand why everyone else is so disturbed by her. As a young girl, she was often scolded for going barefoot. ~ J. Ruth Gendler

When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented. ~ Fausto Cercignani

Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference. ~ Noreena Hertz