the entire reason that racial discrimination in voting is not happening is because we have this very important law. i was righteously angry right alongside with her. her dissent was the introduction for many young people for how important the court is in our daily lives. i pulled up photoshop and did the design in 15 minutes. i came up with a couple of slogans. the one that kept coming back to me was you can t spell truth without ruth. a friend of mine posted to facebook saying wow, justice ginsburg sure can write, hashtag notorious rbg. so i started a tumblr and i called it notorious rbg. she s known to fans the world over as the notorious rbg. yeah this album is dedicated to all the teachers who told me i d never amount to nothing people ask me, don t you feel uncomfortable being with a name
i have admired and loved you almost since the day we first met at cornell some 56 years ago. the time has come for me to take leave of life because the loss of quality now simply overwhelms. i hope you will support where i come out, but i understand you may not. i will not love you a jot less. we met on a blind date in 1950. the truth was it was a blind date only on ruth s side. i cheated. i asked a classmate to point her out in advance. oh, she s really cute, i perceptively noticed.
ruth s work made me feel as if i was protected by the u.s. constitution for the first time. men and women are persons of equal dignity and they should count equally before the law. she may be small, but she s got a firm backbone. it s been a long road for her, and she s fought really hard all the way down it. she s not done fighting. looking back over my long life, yes, we may be in trying times, but think how it was. when i went to college there was a big red scare in our country. some people on our congress saw communists, in every closet and in every corner. but it impressed me there were lawyers reminding me we had freedom of speech and freedom of press, so i thought that was a very good thing to do. to help keep our country in tune
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ruth and i heard about it and immediately let the lawyer for sharon frontiero know we were interested. it was very important for to us have a part in that case. there was the sense and there still is the sense that nice girls don t speak up, nice girls don t make demands. well, too bad. it went to the district court in alabama. we lost and the next court to go to was the supreme court. ruth and i set to work to write the brief. what we wanted was a review of cases that the court would say sex discrimination doesn t work, and it would be a broad command basically to legislatures to get rid of statutes that discriminate on the basis of gender. but she also added to make the point much more poignant the history of women and the way we were treated throughout america and its beginnings.