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I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.
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
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The Bronx
New York City
Sonia Maria Sotomayor
Justice Sotomayor
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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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When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.
Sonia Sotomayor
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.
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I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can.
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I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.
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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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Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.
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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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Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.
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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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I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.
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I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it.
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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
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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I accept the proposition that...“to judge is an exercise of power” and because...“there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives – no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging,” I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions.
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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
Diabetes taught me discipline.
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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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I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
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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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