“Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.” StatesGovernmentLawOpportunityIndividualAchieveTalentPolicyEqualCapacityDenyProtectionOfficialsAspireCitizenshipStatureState GovernmentEqual OpportunityEqual ProtectionIndividual Talent Book:My Own Words Source: My Own Words
“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.” ShouldStatesUnitedUnited StatesJudgmentCourtConclusionProphecyPresidencyTestedAdequateDissent Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.” MeanStatesWomenEqualityWomens RightsAutonomyTrue Equality Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great - says great things about our judicial system.” ThinkingSaidEndsStatesUnitedUnited StatesCourtGreat ThingsSooner Or LaterControversyJudicialJudicial System Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.” PeopleMenStatesHomeGovernmentLawPurposeCertainPayWeaponsArmyAmendmentsNo MoneySecond AmendmentMilitiaNew Government Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Congress could always stop the President if Congress thinks that what the President has done exceeds the President's authority or is just wrong for the United States.” IfsThinkingStatesDonePresidentUnitedUnited StatesAuthorityCongressExceed Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking the wherewithal to travel can't. There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.” MeanStatesBigsPoorUnitedUnited StatesSafeConcernedTragedyAccessIronyAbortionLackingRestriction Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“..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.” WorldHumansDoeStatesLawCommunityUnitedUnited StatesSubjectsParticularRespectConcernedDignityOrganizationInternationalIllAdvancementRule Of LawScrutinyHuman DignityInternational CommunityCandid Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.” KindSaidTwoStatesGayMilkGay MarriageSaying No Author: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.” YearsStatesRunningBornJusticeUnitedUnited StatesJudgingProudDemandTraditionCourtConstantRaisedJewSupremeSupreme CourtBenchesEntiretyJewish Tradition Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.” IfsYearsLooksStatesUnitedUnited StatesConstitutionUs ConstitutionDrafting Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.” StatesRecordsMaterialsPoliceSignificantHolding OnIncumbentsProsecutor Author: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.” PeopleIfsMeanDoeStatesPoorPolicyBirthImpactAccessPoor PeopleRestrictionEugenics Author: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.” MeanStatesSeemsLawChoicesPoorPolicyChangedObviousAbortionAbortion Laws Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
