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• Outside of the marriage context, can you think of any other rational basis, reason, for a state using sexual orientation as a factor in denying homosexuals benefits or imposing burdens on them? Is there any other rational decision-making that the government could make? Denying them a job, not granting them benefits of some sort, any other decision?

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  Jobs, Gay, Thinking

  "These are the exchanges you need to read from today’s Supreme Court arguments". Supreme Court arguments, www.washingtonpost.com. March 26, 2013.

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• I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

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  Believe, Rights, Law

  "Obama Picks Hispanic Woman For Supreme Court". "National Public Radio News", www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

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• I had many reasons for writing this book but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it. And my hope is that when they finish reading the book, that they will come away with a renewed sense of pride in our culture and in who we are. We get a lot of strength from that [culture and identity] and we should be proud of it.

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  Children, Book, Reading

  "Sotomayor on Puerto Rico, Not Speaking Spanish… and Poker". voicesofny.org. January 15, 2013.

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• For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the achievement of our founding fathers. They set forth principles that have endured for than more two centuries. Those principles are as meaningful and relevant in each generation as the generation before. It would be a profound privilege for me to play a role in applying those principles to the questions and controversies we face today.

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  Meaningful, Father, Play

  Sonia sotomayor's speech after being nominated by Barack Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court, content.time.com. May 26, 2009.

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

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  Thinking, Action, Institutions

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

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• 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.

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  Motivation, School, Yale

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

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• Diabetes taught me discipline.

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  Discipline, Taught, Diabetes

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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.

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  Baby, Yale, Perfect

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

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• I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can. And I visit with community as frequently as possible, given the demands on me. I meet with kids. I meet with adults. I try to spend time and to listen to people talk about their lives.

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  Kids, Islands, People

  "Sotomayor on Puerto Rico, Not Speaking Spanish… and Poker". voicesofny.org. January 15, 2013.

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• There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy, and how far we want to protect it and from whom.

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  Technology, Thinking, Air

  "Sotomayor: Americans Should be Alarmed by Spread of Drones" by Jacob Gershman, www.politico.com. September 12, 2014.

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• I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.

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  People, World, Helpful

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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• It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

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  Jobs, Emotional, Judging

  "CNN Newsroom" with Fredricka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2009.

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• as for the possibility of 'having it all,' career and family with no sacrifice to either, that is a myth we would do well to abandon, together with the pernicious notion that a woman who chooses one of the other is somehow deficient.

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  Sacrifice, Careers, Together

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

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• I was aware that my nomination was drawing a lot of attention, particularly in the Latino world, not just in Puerto Rico. It was touching.

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  Drawing, Touching, Attention

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

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  African American, Battle, Stereotype

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.

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  New Yorkers

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

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• The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

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  Education, States, Third Grade

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.29, Vintage

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• [On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.

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  Wind, Breathing, Desert

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.186, Vintage

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• So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

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  People, Optimism, Challenges

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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• People in some situations act worse than animals. You can't be a judge if you try to be a robot. Because then you're not going to be able to look at both sides, and hear both sides. At the same time, if you're being ruled by emotion, then you're not being fair and impartial.

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  Animal, People, Judging

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• I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.

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  Writing, Court, Members

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage

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• You can only stay connected if you feel connected.

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  Feels, Connected, Ifs

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.

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  New York, Home, Gun

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

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  Social Values, Law, Unfortunate

  "Morning Bell: The Judicial Oath vs Sonia Sotomayor" by Conn Carroll, www.dailysignal.com. July 13, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Views, Achievement, Doubt

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