"My job as a prosecutor is to do……" — Sonia Sotomayor
"My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not."
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121 Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor has 121 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different…
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If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction,…
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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…
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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…
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The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging…
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The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but…
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I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her…
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Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.
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Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come,…
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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…
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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…
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If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and…
— Thomas Aquinas
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This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be…
— John Nelson Darby
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Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing…
— Jo Bonner
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You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.
— Dan Barker
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When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources…
— Adolf Hitler
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No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms…
— Colin Greenwood
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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they…
— Martin Luther
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Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of…
— Jim Sensenbrenner
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By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white…
— Joseph Lowery
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In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are…
— George Ryan
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As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed…
— Coretta Scott King
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It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and…
— Jan Schakowsky
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