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There are no bystanders in this life.

Sonia Sotomayor

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
Until we reach equality in education, we can’t reach equality in the larger society.
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Education Equality Reach Society
Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.
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Career Fun Pretend
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
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Blessing Experience Myself Opportunity Ordinary Person
I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.
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Decision God Image Justice Myself People Reality Reputation
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
We apply law to facts. We don’t apply feelings to facts.
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Difference Fact Feelings Law
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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Born Difference Experience Inheritance Judgement Nation Ourselves
I’ve spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.
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Hard Learning Life Myself
I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.
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Focus Myself Negative Positive
Diabetes taught me discipline.
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Discipline Myself One Liner Sick Teaching
The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.
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Fire Forever Myself
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
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
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
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

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