Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes – Inspiring Words of Wisdom

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life.

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

Dissents speak to a future age.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Justice, respect for the dignity of each individual, and equality under the law are the essence of our democratic society.

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.

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

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 20

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will make others want to join you.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

Desert Storm [the Gulf War] is a classic example of engaging forces without the clear intent of peace.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes – Inspiring Words of Wisdom part 2

You should never go into a battle without a plan for how you will get out.

If you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself.

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Women need to be active agents in their own destiny, and that destiny must include full and equal participation in all aspects of society.

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.

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

I think that men and women, shoulder to shoulder, will work together to make this a better world. Just as I don’t think that women are better than men, I think that men are not better than women.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

The Court began by exercising judicial restraint.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

The more educated a woman is, the less likely she is to be a victim of domestic violence.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like.

I’m de facto a member of the women’s movement because I’m a woman doing the same job as men. But most of my life, I’ve been surrounded by loving, caring, intelligent men.

I hope that I will be remembered as someone who helped to move the country in the way that I thought was right.

Do something outside yourself. Something to repair tears in your community. Something to make life a little better for people less fortunate than you.

Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.

Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

I just follow my own instincts and see if they match up with the law.

The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition.

I do not believe that there has been any other time in history where children were better off than they are in America today.

People ask me sometimes, ‘When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?’ and my answer is: ‘When there are nine.’

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

I see my advocacy as part of the effort to make the equality principle a reality for all human beings.