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The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

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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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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All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.
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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.
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I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.
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Outside of the marriage context, can you think of any other rational basis, reason, for a state using sexual orientation as a factor in denying homosexuals benefits or imposing burdens on them? Is there any other rational decision-making that the government could make? Denying them a job, not granting them benefits of some sort, any other decision?
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I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
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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 really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
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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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The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.
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I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.
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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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I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.
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My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.
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You can only stay connected if you feel connected.
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You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down.
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As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.
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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.
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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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The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.
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