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There are no bystanders in life. Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

Sonia Sotomayor

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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Book Environment Experience Failure Myself People Success Work Writing
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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Attention Institution Pay People Procedure Thinking
A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.
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Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
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You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.
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In every position that I’ve been in, there have been naysayers who don’t believe I’m qualified or who don’t believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.
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Believe Myself Position Qualification Responsibility Work Wrong
Don’t be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.
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The challenges I have faced – among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother – are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.
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The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.
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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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Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.
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Until we reach equality in education, we can’t reach equality in the larger society.
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Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way – through the power of words – to change the world.
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We apply law to facts. We don’t apply feelings to facts.
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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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You can’t dream unless you know what the possibilities are.
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