Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRead
The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.
Interpretation
Progress often occurs gradually rather than all at once.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg highlights the nature of legal and societal progress, suggesting that meaningful change is often achieved through incremental improvements rather than sweeping reforms. This reflects the complexity of the legal system and the necessity of patience and persistence in the pursuit of justice.
In practice
In a speech about civil rights, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of gradual reform.
Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.
If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.
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, color of their skin, whether they're men or women.
The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.
A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law Reviews were student-operated publications.
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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