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

Sonia Sotomayor

There are uses to adversity, and they don’t reveal themselves until tested. Whether it’s serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.
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Adversity Difficult Expectation Limitation Reveal Serious Sick Simplicity Strength
A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, “Yes, someone like me can do this.”
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Existence Inspirational Model Myself Possible Reason Role
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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Believe Constitution Honor Respect
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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Decision God Image Justice Myself People Reality Reputation
Don’t be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.
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Herself Party Shy Teacher Willing
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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Bad Book Escape Life Myself Power Reading Travel Universe Word
Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.
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Alone Future Oneself Path Remember Success Walk
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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Acceptance Culture Fear Knowledge Law Myself Simplicity Understand
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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Economics Education Justice Legal Moral Privilege Professional Representation Society
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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Break Carry Fight Live Myself Process Result System
My diabetes is such a central part of my life… it did teach me discipline, it also taught me about moderation. I’ve trained myself to be super-vigilant because I feel better when I am in control.
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Better Control Discipline Feeling Life Myself Sick Teaching Training
Diabetes taught me discipline.
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Discipline Myself One Liner Sick Teaching
Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.
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Challenge Growth Life Modesty Myself Rich
The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.
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Fire Forever Myself
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
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Blessing Experience Myself Opportunity Ordinary Person
As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.
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Equality Existence Inequality Ourselves Protection Race Society Task

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