Category: Justice
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I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I’m young at heart. I’m young in spirit, and I’m still adventurous.
Sonia Sotomayor
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In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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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
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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
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At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg