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 donโt hide within it.
Sonia SotomayorI think there's a large segment of the mainland population that does not really understand the number of territories that are part of the United States.
Sonia SotomayorI listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.
Sonia SotomayorI was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
Sonia Sotomayor