To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.
Sonia SotomayorI think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being.
Sonia SotomayorI got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.
Sonia SotomayorIt is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.
Sonia SotomayorYou can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.
Sonia Sotomayor. . . But experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is instirring within us the will to aspire. That will, wherever it finally leads, does at least move you forward. And after a time you may recognize That the proper measure of success is not how much you've closed the distance to some far-off goal but the quality of what you've done today.
Sonia Sotomayor