Danielle H

“[Belva] Lockwood sought more than suffrage. She urged full political and civil rights for all women. Though she could not vote for president, she twice ran for the office herself, pointing out that nothing in the Constitution barred a woman's candidacy. (She took that bold step 124 years before Hillary Rodham Clinton first became a contender for the Democratic Party's nomination.) Explaining why she entered the race, she wrote in a letter to her future running mate, Marietta Stow: 'We shall never have equal rights until we take them, nor equal respect until we command it.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“certain hallmarks of her legal writing and thought—her care in choosing words, her wariness of politically motivated prosecution, her concern that shortcuts in the name of efficiency often reduce effectiveness in the long run, and her unswerving commitment to individual rights and the presumption of innocence—shone through even in that first letter to her college newspaper.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words