"We do not read (the law) to elevate……" — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ... We have no cause to believe that (the law) would not be applied in an appropriately balanced way, without sensitivity to security concerns."
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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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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in…
— Mark Twain
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Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful…
— Jean Piaget
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The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with…
— Ernst Haeckel
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Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the…
— William Merritt Chase
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The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact…
— George Washington
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I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call…
— Salvador Minuchin
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Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic…
— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will…
— Samuel Johnson
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Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both…
— Harry S. Truman
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
— Jean Piaget
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The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought:…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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