Sonia Sotomayor - People Quotes

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People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible.

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I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

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In our private conversations, Judge Cedarbaum has pointed out to me that seminal decisions in race and sex discrimination cases have come from Supreme Courts composed exclusively of white males. I agree that this is significant but I also choose to emphasize that the people who argued those cases before the Supreme Court which changed the legal landscape ultimately were largely people of color and women.

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