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

Sonia Sotomayor

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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 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 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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" 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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" I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up. "

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" It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law. "

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" Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge. "

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

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" I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good. "

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" I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them. "

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" When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. "

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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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" The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified. "

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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 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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" When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all. "

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" When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid. "

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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 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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" 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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