The Latino community anchored me, but I didn't want it to isolate me from the full extent of what Princeton had to offer, including engagement with the larger community. Page 148

Sonia Sotomayor
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  1. The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. - Unknown

  2. We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. - Dorothy Day

  3. Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. - Ruth Reichl

  4. The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers..of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few,... - Allan Bloom

  5. A forest is not a wilderness, but a community of souls who speak to one another on the wind. - Anthony T. Hincks

More Quotes By Sonia Sotomayor
  1. Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

  2. Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283

  3. 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.

  4. [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.

  5. I couldn’t even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita’s sadness.

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