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You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

Sonia Sotomayor

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.
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Choice Experience Judgement Personal See
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
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
The 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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Community Diversity Feeling
A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.
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Confidence Effort
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
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
Diabetes taught me discipline.
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Discipline Myself One Liner Sick Teaching
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
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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Constitution Discrimination Eyes Race Stop Talk Way
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
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Hope Life Man Myself Reach Rich Woman
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
You can’t dream unless you know what the possibilities are.
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Dreams Possible Yourself
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
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Bad Believe Experience Goodness Judgement Life Opportunity Person
Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.
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Career Fun Pretend
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

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