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The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.

Sonia Sotomayor

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

Today, I Am, Blessed

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

Home, Community, School

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, Important

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, Parents, Simple

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

Me, Latina, Forever

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, Equality, Society

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

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

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

Perseverance, Blessed, Face

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

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

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

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, World, People

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, Past, Me

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Sonia Sotomayor

I Am, Blessed, Opportunities

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

Positive, Negative, Look

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, Optimism

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. Sonia Sotomayor

Life, Value, You

I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity. Sonia Sotomayor

Day, Justice, Humanity

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law. Sonia Sotomayor

Law, Philosophy, Judicial

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

Diabetes taught me discipline. Sonia Sotomayor

Discipline, Me, Diabetes

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

Mother, Service, Complain

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

Work, Parents, Greatest

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know. Sonia Sotomayor

Experience, Law, People

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, Wise

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