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It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

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
Lawyer
Politician
University Teacher
The Bronx
New York City
Sonia Maria Sotomayor
Justice Sotomayor
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Growing
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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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The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.
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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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You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.
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Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it's a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.
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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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The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.
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Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
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I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.
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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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We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.
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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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I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
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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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