Sonia Sotomayor Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the prejudice that would deny them a chance to even try. It is the same prejudice that insists all those destined for success must be cast from the same mold as those who have succeeded before them, a view that experience has already proven a fallacy.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Views, Achievement, Doubt

• I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Running, Race, Yale

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.191, Vintage

• 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 would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Self, Support, Temptation

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.149, Vintage

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