Great men and wise sayings
A collection of quotes from renowned individuals throughout history, provided with their Korean translations.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

"์—ฌ์„ฑ์€ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณณ์— ์†ํ•ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ์˜ˆ์™ธ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค." - ๋ฃจ์Šค ๋ฒ ์ด๋” ๊ธด์ฆˆ๋ฒ„๊ทธ.


Champion of Gender Equality



Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1993 until her death in 2020. Known affectionately as "RBG," she became a cultural icon and champion of gender equality. Before joining the Supreme Court, Ginsburg was a pioneering lawyer who co-founded the Women's Rights Project at the ACLU, where she argued six landmark cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court, winning five. As only the second woman to serve on the highest court, she spent her career dismantling legal barriers that prevented women from achieving full participation in American society.

๋ฃจ์Šค ๋ฒ ์ด๋” ๊ธด์ฆˆ๋ฒ„๊ทธ(1933-2020)๋Š” 1993๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2020๋…„ ์‚ฌ๋งํ•  ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์˜ ๋Œ€๋ฒ•๊ด€์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ์งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "RBG"๋ผ๋Š” ์• ์นญ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋ฌธํ™”์  ์•„์ด์ฝ˜์ด์ž ์„ฑํ‰๋“ฑ์˜ ์˜นํ˜ธ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „, ๊ธด์ฆˆ๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” ACLU์—์„œ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋™ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•œ ์„ ๊ตฌ์ ์ธ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์—์„œ ์„ฑํ‰๋“ฑ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ 6๊ฑด์˜ ํš๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์„ ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ 5๊ฑด์„ ์Šน์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ณ  ๋ฒ•์›์—์„œ ๋ด‰์‚ฌํ•œ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ์„œ, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์— ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ง‰๋Š” ๋ฒ•์  ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์„ ํ•ด์ฒดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐ”์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg


The Power of Ginsburg's Quote


"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception." This powerful statement encapsulates Ginsburg's lifelong mission to normalize women's presence in positions of power. Rather than arguing for special treatment, she advocated for women's participation to be seen as natural and necessary. The quote challenges the historical norm where women's absence from decision-making spaces was accepted without question. Ginsburg understood that true equality meant not celebrating individual women as exceptional cases, but creating systems where women's leadership is routine and expected.

"์—ฌ์„ฑ์€ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด ๋‚ด๋ ค์ง€๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณณ์— ์†ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด ์˜ˆ์™ธ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค." ์ด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ง„์ˆ ์€ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ์˜ ์œ„์น˜์—์„œ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ์กด์žฌ๋ฅผ ์ •์ƒํ™”ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ธด์ฆˆ๋ฒ„๊ทธ์˜ ํ‰์ƒ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๋Œ€์šฐ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š”, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์ง€๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์˜นํ˜ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ธ์šฉ๋ฌธ์€ ์˜์‚ฌ ๊ฒฐ์ • ๊ณต๊ฐ„์—์„œ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ๋ถ€์žฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜๋ฌธ ์—†์ด ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ์กŒ๋˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ๊ทœ๋ฒ”์— ๋„์ „ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธด์ฆˆ๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ํ‰๋“ฑ์ด ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์„ ์˜ˆ์™ธ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋กœ ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์ด ์ผ์ƒ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋˜๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Breaking Barriers Through Law


Throughout her legal career, Ginsburg strategically dismantled gender discrimination by demonstrating how stereotypes harmed both women and men. She famously argued cases where male plaintiffs were denied benefits available to women, showing that rigid gender roles restricted everyone's opportunities. Her approach was methodical and patient, building precedent upon precedent to establish gender equality as a constitutional principle. This strategic brilliance transformed American law, opening doors for women in education, employment, military service, and countless other areas previously dominated by men.

๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ, ๊ธด์ฆˆ๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ณ ์ •๊ด€๋…์ด ์—ฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋‚จ์„ฑ ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ผ์น˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋ณด์—ฌ์คŒ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์ฐจ๋ณ„์„ ํ•ด์ฒดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋‚จ์„ฑ ์›๊ณ ๋“ค์ด ์—ฌ์„ฑ์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜๋Š” ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€๋‹นํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด๋“ค์„ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฝ์ง๋œ ์„ฑ ์—ญํ• ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ œํ•œํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์€ ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ธ๋‚ด์‹ฌ ์žˆ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์„ฑํ‰๋“ฑ์„ ํ—Œ๋ฒ•์  ์›์น™์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋ฆฝํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ ๋ก€ ์œ„์— ์„ ๋ก€๋ฅผ ์Œ“์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ „๋žต์  ํƒ์›”ํ•จ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹œ์ผœ, ์ด์ „์— ๋‚จ์„ฑ์ด ์ง€๋ฐฐํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ต์œก, ๊ณ ์šฉ, ๊ตฐ ๋ณต๋ฌด ๋ฐ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ฌธ์„ ์—ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg


Legacy of Inclusion and Representation


Ginsburg's vision extended beyond legal victories to cultural transformation. She believed that women's perspectives were essential for just and effective decision-making in all sectors of society. Her own presence on the Supreme Court demonstrated this principle—her questions during oral arguments often highlighted how laws affected women and families in ways her male colleagues hadn't considered. When asked how many women on the Supreme Court would be enough, she famously answered "nine," pointing out that no one questioned the court when it had nine men.

๊ธด์ฆˆ๋ฒ„๊ทธ์˜ ๋น„์ „์€ ๋ฒ•์  ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด ๋ฌธํ™”์  ๋ณ€ํ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ๊ด€์ ์ด ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์ •์˜๋กญ๊ณ  ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ์˜์‚ฌ ๊ฒฐ์ •์— ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋…€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์กด์žฌ๋Š” ์ด ์›์น™์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค—๊ตฌ๋‘ ๋ณ€๋ก  ์ค‘ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์ข…์ข… ๋ฒ•์ด ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋‚จ์„ฑ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š”์ง€ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์— ๋ช‡ ๋ช…์˜ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ์ง€ ๋ฌป๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ์—, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์œ ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ "9๋ช…"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฒ•์›์— 9๋ช…์˜ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ๋Š” ์•„๋ฌด๋„ ์˜๋ฌธ์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Continuing RBG's Mission Today


Ruth Bader Ginsburg's quote remains urgently relevant as women continue to be underrepresented in leadership positions worldwide. While progress has been made since her early career, women still face barriers in boardrooms, legislatures, and other decision-making spaces. Her words remind us that achieving true equality requires systemic change, not just individual breakthroughs. By insisting that women belong everywhere decisions are made, Ginsburg challenged future generations to create a world where diverse voices are heard and valued as the norm, not the exception.

๋ฃจ์Šค ๋ฒ ์ด๋” ๊ธด์ฆˆ๋ฒ„๊ทธ์˜ ์ธ์šฉ๋ฌธ์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ์ง์ฑ…์—์„œ ๊ณ„์† ๊ณผ์†Œ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ธด๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ด€๋ จ์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ์ดํ›„ ์ง„์ „์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฌ์„ฑ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ, ์ž…๋ฒ•๋ถ€ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์˜์‚ฌ ๊ฒฐ์ • ๊ณต๊ฐ„์—์„œ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ง์€ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ํ‰๋“ฑ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๊ฐœ์ธ์  ๋ŒํŒŒ๊ตฌ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ธ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด ๋‚ด๋ ค์ง€๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณณ์— ์†ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ๊ธด์ฆˆ๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์„ธ๋Œ€์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์™ธ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ๊ทœ๋ฒ”์œผ๋กœ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์ง€๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋„๋ก ๋„์ „ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg



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