Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

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

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community.

– 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

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

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

– 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.

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Remember that before ‘Roe v. Wade’ was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that’s what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures.

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‘We, the people.’

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn’t be prey to the employers who say, ‘We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.’

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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