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If you’re poor, you don’t often live near a good school. If it’s a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

Sonia Sotomayor

I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

Believe Children Confidence Life Love Myself Respect Thrive
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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Attachment Community Different Growth Home Language Parents See Shame Talk Yourself
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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Life Philosophy Threat Value Yourself
Diabetes taught me discipline.
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Discipline Myself One Liner Sick Teaching
There are no bystanders in life. Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.
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Greatness Humanity Life Ourselves Stand
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
The President Barack Obama had suggested that I not watch the news during the confirmation process. I assiduously followed his advice.
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Advice Myself President Process
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
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
The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.
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Fire Forever Myself
You can’t dream unless you know what the possibilities are.
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Dreams Possible Yourself
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
To me, lawyering is the height of service – and being involved in this profession is a gift.
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Gift Law Myself Professional Service
It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
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Different Growth
You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will – undoubtedly – fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I’m just not going to let this get me down.
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Doubt Failure Hurt Live Myself

If you’re poor, you don’t often live near a good school. If it’s a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

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