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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.
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
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The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.
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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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When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.
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The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.
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When you marry young, you run the risk that you'll grow in different directions.
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I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.
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Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
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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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People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.
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Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.
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No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.
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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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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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I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.
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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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It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
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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 didn't know I had a sense of limitation until I got into the greater world.
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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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