Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Sonia Sotomayor More Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor More Quotes From Sonia Sotomayor One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the prejudice that would deny them a chance to even try. It is the same prejudice that insists all those destined for success must be cast from the same mold as those who have succeeded before them, a view that experience has already proven a fallacy. Sonia Sotomayor achievement views doubt There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects. Sonia Sotomayor balance motivation trying When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to lead to certain results in certain situations. And so people seem to think this predictability is based on some kind of partisan political view. But it's not. Sonia Sotomayor strong views thinking In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house. Sonia Sotomayor smell color powerful It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society. Sonia Sotomayor unpredictable responsibility justice Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge. Sonia Sotomayor party judging law The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first. Sonia Sotomayor poor-neighborhoods struggle school What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image. Sonia Sotomayor males doctors lawyer The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way. Sonia Sotomayor political judging thinking My mom loved the book [My beloved world] and she said to me, 'I never knew you had done so much.' Sonia Sotomayor mom done book Each one of them [referring to her family] believed that hiding things is never good and that by sharing them, we could give hope to some people - because so many people we know have suffered some of the same things. Sonia Sotomayor hiding giving people The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally. Sonia Sotomayor people ideas thinking You can only stay connected if you feel connected. Sonia Sotomayor connected ifs feels Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can. Sonia Sotomayor no-friends family-and-friends islands The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified. Sonia Sotomayor citizens-united scared firsts When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid. Sonia Sotomayor entering different world I am growing to love DC. But the core of Sonia is a New Yorker. Sonia Sotomayor new-yorkers core growing Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister. Sonia Sotomayor passive-voice splits use It seems to me that your very argument that it's independent is suggesting it can't belong to the territory and that there's a serious problem that the federal government is creating an entity that no one can control. Sonia Sotomayor politics This is not quite ignorance of the law. This is something substantially different because you're talking about ... knowledge that your body can be invaded by police to secure evidence to prove you drove intoxicated. Sonia Sotomayor us-news
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