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Sonia Sotomayor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 25
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Judge
Lawyer
Politician
University Teacher
The Bronx
New York City
Sonia Maria Sotomayor
Justice Sotomayor
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It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.
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A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.
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It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
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I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
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Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.
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There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.
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Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.
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In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.
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Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.
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The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.
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The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.
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As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.
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My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.
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We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.
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Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.
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I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.
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The President [Barack Obama] had suggested that I not watch the news during the confirmation process. I assiduously followed his advice.
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My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.
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When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
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I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.
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