Sonia Sotomayor Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Wall, Bridges, Community

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.164, Vintage

• The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Diversity, Community, Outsiders

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.163, Vintage

• I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Two, Community, Assistants

  President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

• Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make this multitude of faces, the view from where I now stood, a little more various. If they could have heard me, I would have confided in them: As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Wall, Views, Years

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.164, Vintage

• I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can. And I visit with community as frequently as possible, given the demands on me. I meet with kids. I meet with adults. I try to spend time and to listen to people talk about their lives.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Kids, Islands, People

  "Sotomayor on Puerto Rico, Not Speaking Spanish… and Poker". voicesofny.org. January 15, 2013.

• I am eternally grateful to all of the Latino groups outside of the Puerto Rican community, but including the Puerto-Rican community, who came to support me during the process [of nomination].

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Grateful, Support, Community

  "Sotomayor on Puerto Rico, Not Speaking Spanish… and Poker". voicesofny.org. January 15, 2013.

• I have always been actively involved in my community, belonging to organizations that promote the interests of Latinos. But I also know that the issues we confront are the same issues, in many respects, as the larger community. So what we do helps not just us but everybody.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Community, Helping, Latino

  Source: www.oprah.com

• When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Growing Up, Home, School

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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