Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is good people immediately perceive race discrimination as evil and intolerable. But when I talked about sex-based discrimination, I got the response, 'What are you talking about? Women are treated ever so much better than men!'

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg Contemporary

Supreme Court Justice

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On the perception of gender vs. race discrimination

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