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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.

Sonia Sotomayor

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
Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
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Failure Fear Greatness Reward Success Teacher
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
You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.
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Choice Hard Work Life Understand Yourself
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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Achievement Children Different Help Music Yourself
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
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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Battle Choice Engagement Kindness People Seek
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
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.
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Blessing Face Myself Native Perseverance
Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States. Many people have no idea what the relationship is between Puerto Rico and the United States. And certainly, I have been asked if we are citizens.
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Citizenship Ideas Life Myself People Question Relationship Thinking
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
I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.
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Accomplishment Action Institution Myself Quality Thinking
It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
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Different Growth
A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.
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Confidence Effort
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
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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Expectation Myself Self Love Worth

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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