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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

History, Appreciate, Important, Us, Come

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences. Sonia Sotomayor

Today, Blessed, I Am, Opportunities, Who

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. - Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. Sonia Sotomayor

Education, Society, Equality, Equal, Get

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences. Sonia Sotomayor

Life, Good, Opportunity, Wise, Believe

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths. Sonia Sotomayor

Adversity, Simple, Parents, Unexpected

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. Sonia Sotomayor

Community, Home, Parents, School, Speak

I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself. Sonia Sotomayor

Myself, Parents, World, Envy, Teachers

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

Music, Child, Help, You, Important, Go

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. Sonia Sotomayor

Justice, Society, Legal, Professional

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth. Sonia Sotomayor

Myself, Expectations, Me, Measure, Know

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I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. Sonia Sotomayor

Perseverance, Blessed, Optimism, Face

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people. Sonia Sotomayor

Business, People, World, Selfish, Heaven

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not. Sonia Sotomayor

Man, Justice, Job, Innocent, Guilty

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions. Sonia Sotomayor

I Am, Baby, Colleagues, Action, Succeed

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever. Sonia Sotomayor

Me, Latina, Forever

You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down. Sonia Sotomayor

Failure, Live, Past, Me, Know, You

Diabetes taught me discipline. Sonia Sotomayor

Discipline, Me, Diabetes, Taught

If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. Sonia Sotomayor

Positive, Work, Success, Marriage, Book

A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time. Sonia Sotomayor

Time, Long, Doing, You, Plan, Train

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive. Sonia Sotomayor

Positive, Negative, Look, Always, Never

With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that. Sonia Sotomayor

Achievement, School, High School, Test

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. Sonia Sotomayor

Knowledge, Limits, Understanding, Accept

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in. Sonia Sotomayor

Hope, Happy, Yourself, Challenges, Me

I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it. Sonia Sotomayor

People, Think, Doing, You, Important

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. Sonia Sotomayor

Life, Hope, Woman, Wise, Better, Reach

I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate. Sonia Sotomayor

Experience, Judge, Accept, Supreme Court

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