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" I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights. "

Sonia Sotomayor

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" This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear. "

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" I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it. "

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" The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way. "

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" I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities. "

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" Diabetes taught me discipline. "

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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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" I don't prejudge. "

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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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" If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered. "

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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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" 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 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 do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth. "

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" I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me. "

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" The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever. "

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" Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. "

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" An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. "

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" I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability. "

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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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" The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first. "

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" If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be. "

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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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" Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do. "

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" I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive. "

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