"The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly……" — Sonia Sotomayor
"The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way."
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121 Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor
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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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