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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. "
Sonia Sotomayor
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" Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. "
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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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" 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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" Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich. "
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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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" 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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" Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. "
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" My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law. "
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" You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action. "
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" I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. "
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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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" 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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" A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time. "
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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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" I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run. "
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" Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. "
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" I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they. "
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" Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy. "
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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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" It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law. "
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" It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona. "
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" I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences. "
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" What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image. "
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" I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life. "
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" I don't prejudge. "
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