"Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the……" — 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."
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56 Quotes by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe - liberty, equality and justice for…
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Whatever community organization, whether it's a women's organization, or fighting for racial justice ... you will get satisfaction out of…
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications…
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to…
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...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to…
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Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations.…
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Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the…
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Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of…
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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
— Annie Besant
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
— William Blake
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers…
— Allen Boyd
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
— Charlotte Bronte
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
— Jerry Brown
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
— Les Brown
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