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. Sonia Sotomayor More Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor More Quotes From Sonia Sotomayor I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them. Sonia Sotomayor new-yorkers I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous. Sonia Sotomayor adventurous spirit heart Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. Sonia Sotomayor social-values unfortunate law I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain. Sonia Sotomayor income mother complaining 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. Sonia Sotomayor fighting broken law 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 Sotomayor different important children People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1. Sonia Sotomayor pages people needs Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was so much better now, but I did miss him. For all the misery he caused, I knew with certainty that he loved us. Those aren't things you can weigh or measure away. ... They're not opposites that cancel each other out. They're both true at the same time. Sonia Sotomayor missing opposites father If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is taking a case now the answer? Sonia Sotomayor issues gay answers So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and they can create that class and decide benefits on that basis when they themselves have no interest in the actual institution of marriage as married? Sonia Sotomayor benefits gay class Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make this multitude of faces, the view from where I now stood, a little more various. If they could have heard me, I would have confided in them: 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. Sonia Sotomayor wall views years I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it. Sonia Sotomayor support temptation self When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started. Sonia Sotomayor essence talking baby I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal. Sonia Sotomayor hispanic labels I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me. Sonia Sotomayor open-mind cases mind There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy, and how far we want to protect it and from whom. Sonia Sotomayor technology air thinking I accept the proposition that...“to judge is an exercise of power” and because...“there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives – no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging,” I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions. Sonia Sotomayor color exercise people I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me. Sonia Sotomayor life-learning whole-life challenges The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread. Sonia Sotomayor third-grade states education as for the possibility of 'having it all,' career and family with no sacrifice to either, that is a myth we would do well to abandon, together with the pernicious notion that a woman who chooses one of the other is somehow deficient. Sonia Sotomayor sacrifice careers together
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