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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. "

Sonia Sotomayor
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" So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it. "
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" I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for 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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" I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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 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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" I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. 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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" The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever. "
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" We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts. "
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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 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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" I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals. "
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" We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought. "
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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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" 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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" Diabetes taught me discipline. "
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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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" It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand. "
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" When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to lead to certain results in certain situations. And so people seem to think this predictability is based on some kind of partisan political view. But it's not. "
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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 think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity. "
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