Sonia Sotomayor Quotes About Affirmative Action

Quotes about: Affirmative Action

• The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Eye, Race, Way

  "Opinion: Sonia Sotomayor's Dissent On Affirmative Action Will Bear Test Of Time" by Raul A. Reyes, www.foxnews.com. April 29, 2014.

• 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

  Baby, Yale, Perfect

  "Sotomayor Praises Affirmative Action". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2009.

• With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Motivation, School, Yale

  "Videotaped remarks shed light on Sotomayor" by Charlie Savage, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2009.

• One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the prejudice that would deny them a chance to even try. It is the same prejudice that insists all those destined for success must be cast from the same mold as those who have succeeded before them, a view that experience has already proven a fallacy.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Views, Achievement, Doubt

• When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Baby, Talking, Essence

  "NBC's Guthrie Frets Over Supreme Court Split: 'So-Called Liberals' vs 'Conservative Bloc'". "Today" with Savannah Guthrie, www.newsbusters.org. January 14, 2013.

• I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Thinking, Action, Institutions

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.188, Vintage

• There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Motivation, Balance, Trying

  "Videotaped remarks shed light on Sotomayor" by Charlie Savage, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2009.

• I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Running, Race, Yale

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.191, Vintage

• You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Minorities, Action, This Society

  "Justice Sotomayor prefers "Sonia from the Bronx"". Interview with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. January 29, 2013.

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