I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth. Sonia Sotomayor More Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor More Quotes From Sonia Sotomayor Race matters in part because of the long history of racial minorities' being denied access to the political process. Sonia Sotomayor politics Our democracy rests on the ability of all individuals, regardless of race, income, or status, to exercise their right to vote, communities that are disproportionately affected by unnecessarily harsh registration laws should not tolerate efforts to marginalize their influence in the political process, nor should allies who recognize blatant unfairness stand idly by. Sonia Sotomayor politics I noticed that [fictional defense attorney] Perry Mason was involved in a lot of the same kinds of investigative work that I had been fascinated with reading Nancy Drew, so I decided to become a lawyer, once I focused on becoming a lawyer, I never deviated from that goal. Sonia Sotomayor politics What more do they need? Sonia Sotomayor top-news It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand. Sonia Sotomayor how understand appreciate history Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. Sonia Sotomayor get equal equality society education A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time. Sonia Sotomayor you long-time time long After assuming away an Establishment Clause violation, Supreme Court revolutionized Free Exercise doctrine by equating a State's decision not to fund a religious organization with presumptively unconstitutional discrimination on the basis of religious status. Sonia Sotomayor There are days I get discouraged, then I say,' OK, let's fight.'. Sonia Sotomayor That's why I can be friends with Justice Clarence Thomas and still continue our daily battle over our differences of opinions in cases, you really can't begin to understand an adversary unless you step away from looking at their views as motivated in bad faith. Sonia Sotomayor He has a very different vision than I do about how to help people... and about their responsibilities to help themselves, i have often said to people that Justice Clarence Thomas believes that every person can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I believe that some people can't get to their bootstraps without help -- they need someone to help them lift their foot up so that they can reach. Sonia Sotomayor I thought that none of them constitutionally can use excessive force. Sonia Sotomayor This is really a step further than anything we have said before, all of our other cases, whether its regulation of tobacco, or regulation of evictions under major questions doctrine, have not addressed the' how.' Now... you want President Joe Biden EPA to look at the' how.'. Sonia Sotomayor The advantage of diversity, whether it’s gender or race or ethnicity or even professional work, whatever the diversity represents, it gives people who don’t otherwise think there’s opportunity, it aspires them to believe there might be. Sonia Sotomayor One of the hardest things about our work is that there are no easy answers, reasonable people can disagree... Obviously, just as the larger society disagrees about the answers to some of our problems, so does Supreme Court. And if you bear that in mind, perhaps the public can be more accepting of the kind of work we do. Sonia Sotomayor It's hard to see how impoverished people, unfamiliar with the workings of this government, of this country, are going to find lawyers, it seems like a pyrrhic offering to say that an individual hearing is of any benefit to them. Sonia Sotomayor We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators. Sonia Sotomayor While pediatric hospitalizations are rising, they are still about 15-fold less than hospitalizations of our older demographics. Sonia Sotomayor We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators. Sonia Sotomayor Comparatively, the risk of death is small, but of course children aren't supposed to die, so if we have a child who is sick with COVID-19 … we want to protect them, of course. Sonia Sotomayor
