The Latino community anchored me, but I didn't want it to isolate me from the full extent of what Princeton had to offer, including engagement with the larger community. Page 148
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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 feared. Page 135
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I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there. Page 188
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I've known how to control my anger, but that doesn't mean I don't feel it. Page 190
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Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283
Sonia SotomayorAlthough wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.
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You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.
Sonia SotomayorI was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
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If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance - the full range of what human beings, with all their flaws and foibles, might endure or create - if you enthroned principle above even reason, weren't you then abdicating the responsibilities of a thinking person?
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...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.
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