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.
SONIA SOTOMAYORThe dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.
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Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it’s a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service – and being involved in this profession is a gift.
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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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A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.
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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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Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
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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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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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I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can’t imagine someone else’s point of view.
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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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To me, lawyering is the height of service – and being involved in this profession is a gift.
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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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Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.
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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.
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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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Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.
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Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.
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Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences…our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
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Some people choose not to engage the battle and then don’t seek out that kind of success. And others do.
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There are no bystanders in life. Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.
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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 Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.
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I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.
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There are no bystanders in this life.
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I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
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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 don’t have a professional aspiration. But I do have a personal one: I want to continue growing as a person. I want to reach out more to people, learn more from them. Ultimately, I would like to be a great justice that people remember with respect and fondness.
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