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Sonia Sotomayor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 25
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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Sonia Maria Sotomayor
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This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
Sonia Sotomayor
I don't have a professional aspiration. But I do have a personal one: I want to continue growing as a person. I want to reach out more to people, learn more from them. Ultimately, I would like to be a great justice that people remember with respect and fondness.
Sonia Sotomayor
There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy, and how far we want to protect it and from whom.
Sonia Sotomayor
The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.
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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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A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, Yes, someone like me can do this.
Sonia Sotomayor
I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.
Sonia Sotomayor
Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.
Sonia Sotomayor
It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
Sonia Sotomayor
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.
Sonia Sotomayor
You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.
Sonia Sotomayor
As you may know from my life story, my cousin who was my soul mate went to a public school. And he died of AIDS. Would I and my brother have been able to resist the lure of drugs in the surrounding schools? Who knows.
Sonia Sotomayor
The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.
Sonia Sotomayor
My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.
Sonia Sotomayor
If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.
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I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.
Sonia Sotomayor
I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.
Sonia Sotomayor
I didn't know I had a sense of limitation until I got into the greater world.
Sonia Sotomayor
Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.
Sonia Sotomayor
I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.
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