Quotes by : Sonia Sotomayor

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented....

[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a....

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or....

If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance....

I accepted what the Sisters taught in religion class: that God is loving, merciful, charitable, forgiving.....

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were....

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one....

There were no actual villains, just inertia. The administration genuinely wanted more diversity for reasons....

That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but....

I've always believed phone calls from kids must be allowed if mothers are to feel welcome in the workplace,....