Sonia Sotomayor
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Judge📖
US Supreme Court justice since 2009
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Born
June 25, 1954
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Birthplace
The Bronx
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Nationality
United States
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judgelawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianprosecutor
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"All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know."
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"Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives."
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"I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it."
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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."
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"I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive."
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"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society."
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"We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice."
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