My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.A conversation with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Notre Dame News, 2021
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was known for her advocacy of gender equality and women's rights, earning her the nickname "Notorious RBG" for her fierce dissents and groundbreaking opinions on the court.
1933–2020·lived 87 years
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.A conversation with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Notre Dame News, 2021
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
Dissents speak to a future age.Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Malvina Harlan, interview by Nina Totenberg, NPR, 2002
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.Symposium: Ginsburg was a champion of voting rights, but mostly in dissent, SCOTUSblog
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.Interview with Katie Couric, 2016
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.Remarks at the New-York Historical Society, New York, NY, April 10, 2018
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