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
Sonia SotomayorMots clés community latino community-service
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
Sonia SotomayorMots clés knowledge class culture background
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
Sonia SotomayorMots clés education school affirmative-action
I've known how to control my anger, but that doesn't mean I don't feel it. Page 190
Sonia SotomayorMots clés anger
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.
Sonia SotomayorMots clés wisdom
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.
Sonia SotomayorMots clés politics justice supreme-court
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?
Sonia SotomayorMots clés tolerance principles debate
...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.
Sonia SotomayorMots clés inspirational ambition aspiration sonia-sotomayor
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