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• To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.

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  Children, School, Safety

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I've never had my dexterity called into question, but I think if that was ever the case, I could acquit myself by tossing a ball back and forth horizontally between my hands.

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  Thinking, Hands, Dexterity

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• 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, Balance, Trying

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

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• When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to lead to certain results in certain situations. And so people seem to think this predictability is based on some kind of partisan political view. But it's not.

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  Strong, Thinking, Views

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• Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was so much better now, but I did miss him. For all the misery he caused, I knew with certainty that he loved us. Those aren't things you can weigh or measure away. ... They're not opposites that cancel each other out. They're both true at the same time.

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  Father, Opposites, Missing

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• If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is taking a case now the answer?

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  Gay, Issues, Answers

  "Hollingsworth v. Perry (Prop 8) (Oral Arguments)". genius.com. March 26, 2013.

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• So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and they can create that class and decide benefits on that basis when they themselves have no interest in the actual institution of marriage as married?

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  Gay, Class, Benefits

  Supreme Court Arguments On Defense Of Marriage Act, www.npr.org. March 27, 2013.

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• Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make this multitude of faces, the view from where I now stood, a little more various. If they could have heard me, I would have confided in them: As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

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  Wall, Views, Years

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.164, Vintage

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• What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image.

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  Doctors, Males, Lawyer

  "Sotomayor says she was 'perfect affirmative action baby'" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it.

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  Self, Support, Temptation

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.149, Vintage

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

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  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.

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• I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.

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  Labels, Hispanic

  "Sotomayor: Champion Of The Oppressed, Outcasts And Nerds" By Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I accept the proposition that...“to judge is an exercise of power” and because...“there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives – no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging,” I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions.

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  Exercise, Color, People

  "A Latina Judge’s Voice". Sonia Sotomayor’s Speech at the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal’s Symposium, www.law.berkeley.edu. October 26, 2001.

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• I am eternally grateful to all of the Latino groups outside of the Puerto Rican community, but including the Puerto-Rican community, who came to support me during the process [of nomination].

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  Grateful, Support, Community

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

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• Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

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  Thinking, Looks, Controversy

  "Sonia Sotomayor: There is 'still a need' for affirmative action" by Scott Stump and Scott Stump, www.today.com. November 02, 2015.

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• I got a message from one of my friends in Puerto Rico, who said, 'Sonia, there's nobody working in Puerto Rico - they're all glued to the television'. And I got a similar message from a friend in Spain.

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  Spain, Television, Messages

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.

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  Citizens United, Firsts, Scared

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• When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

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  Different, Entering, World

  Interview with Savannah Guthrie, www.newsbusters.org. January 15, 2013.

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• No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

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  Matter, Violence, Causes

  "Sotomayor, a Trailblazer and a Dreamer" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, www.nytimes.com. May 26, 2009.

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• All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

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  Party, Law, Congress

  Hearings, latimesblogs.latimes.com. July 14, 2009.

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• The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.

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  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• There had been questions raised about whether we could ever really unite to work together on an issue, whether we could do it with equal passion and fervor. And it happened during my nomination and I think I forever will be grateful for that love, for that support and for proving those naysayers wrong.

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  Grateful, Passion, Thinking

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.

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  Heart, Spirit, Adventurous

  "The Real Sonia Sotomayor". "NBC Today Show" with Savannah Guthrie, nbclearn.com. January 15, 2013.

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• This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.

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  Appreciate, Perspective, Wealth

  President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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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.

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  Mother, Extraordinary Person, People

  Transcript of Obama-Sotomayor announcement, edition.cnn.com. May 26, 2009.

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