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I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.

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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
Spent
Learning
Challenges
Whole
Hard
Things
Life

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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.
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People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.
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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.
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I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain.
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All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.
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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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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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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 hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.
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I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.
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If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.
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If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.
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I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.
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It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.
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The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.
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Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger 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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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 strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
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I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.
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