{"author":"Sonia Sotomayor","author_id":"Sonia+Sotomayor","total_quotes":48,"quotes":[{"text":"[T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.","author":"Sonia Sotomayor","tags":["learning","life-lessons","lifelong-education","teachers"],"id":9625,"author_id":"Sonia+Sotomayor"},{"text":"We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.","author":"Sonia Sotomayor","tags":["justice","legal","professional "],"id":40373,"author_id":"Sonia+Sotomayor"},{"text":"It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.","author":"Sonia Sotomayor","tags":["bilingual-education","esl","school"],"id":41252,"author_id":"Sonia+Sotomayor"},{"text":"[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.","author":"Sonia Sotomayor","tags":["diabetes","mortality"],"id":62998,"author_id":"Sonia+Sotomayor"},{"text":"You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down.","author":"Sonia Sotomayor","tags":["past","me","live "],"id":77216,"author_id":"Sonia+Sotomayor"},{"text":"[A]lthough wisdom is built on life experience, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.","author":"Sonia Sotomayor","tags":["age","wisdom","wisdom","wise"],"id":79161,"author_id":"Sonia+Sotomayor"},{"text":"If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance - the full range of what human beings, with all their flaws and foibles, might endure or create - if you enthroned principle above even reason, weren't you then abdicating the responsibilities of a thinking person?","author":"Sonia Sotomayor","tags":["debate","principles","tolerance"],"id":97857,"author_id":"Sonia+Sotomayor"},{"text":"All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.","author":"Sonia Sotomayor","tags":["law","legal","people "],"id":107224,"author_id":"Sonia+Sotomayor"},{"text":"I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered.","author":"Sonia Sotomayor","tags":["experiences","experiments "],"id":144089,"author_id":"Sonia+Sotomayor"},{"text":"I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.","author":"Sonia Sotomayor","tags":["children","unconditional-love"],"id":148200,"author_id":"Sonia+Sotomayor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":48,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}