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I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Sonia Sotomayor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 25
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Judge
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The Bronx
New York City
Sonia Maria Sotomayor
Justice Sotomayor
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Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States.
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Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.
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Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way - through the power of words - to change the world.
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I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.
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It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.
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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.
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I think there's a large segment of the mainland population that does not really understand the number of territories that are part of the United States.
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That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me just beyond what I thought I could acomplish. Either way, it would wash over the same bedrock certainty: ultimately, I know myself.
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I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
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I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.
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