Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”

Passion for a cause is essential, but the way you fight matters just as much as what you fight for. Alienating the very people you need to persuade is self-defeating. Effective advocacy brings others along — it persuades, includes, and builds coalitions instead of burning them.

Ginsburg made this remark in a 2016 commencement address, during a presidential election year in the United States marked by deep political polarization. She was speaking to law graduates at a time when the public debate about justice, protest, and reform was intensifying following the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

American lawyer and Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court who became a pioneering advocate for gender equality, arguing landmark sex-discrimination cases before the Court in the 1970s. She served on the Supreme Court from 1993 until her death in 2020 and became a cultural icon known as RBG.