Category: Justice
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I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It’s not the mother she became after my father died, and that’s been the greatest prize of my life.
Sonia Sotomayor
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If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‘You don’t know how to use the English language,’ or ‘How could you make that argument?’ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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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
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I don’t prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I don’t prejudge.
Sonia Sotomayor
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After the pancreatic cancer, at first I went to N.I.H. every three months, then every four months, then every six months.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.
Sonia Sotomayor
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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
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Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg