Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

American - Judge Born: June 25, 1954

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, Equal, Get

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, Parents, Speak

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, Moral, Legal, Lawyers

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

Me, Latina, Forever

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

Myself, Me, Expectations, Know, Worth

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, Succeed, World, You

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, Where

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, Opportunities, Who

Diabetes taught me discipline. Sonia Sotomayor

Discipline, Me, Diabetes, Taught

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

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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, You, Down

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run. Sonia Sotomayor

Purpose, Me, Action, Create, Doors, Run

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

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself. Sonia Sotomayor

Family, Truth, Myself, Truth Is, Me, End

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

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

I Am, Blessed, Opportunities, Person

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

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

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, Classmates

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, Succeed, Action, Colleagues

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, Guilty, Innocent

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

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

Positive, Negative, Look, Focused, Never

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. Sonia Sotomayor

Good, Hope, I Am, Gender, Heritage, Know

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous. Sonia Sotomayor

I Am, Violence, I Can, Matter, Lead, How

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