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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.

Sonia Sotomayor

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
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
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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Don’t mistake politeness for lack of strength.
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Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.
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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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I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
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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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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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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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Until we reach equality in education, we can’t reach equality in the larger society.
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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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The challenges I have faced – among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother – are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.
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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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As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.
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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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