I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can’t imagine someone else’s point of view. - Sonia Sotomayor

...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

temporary need for remedial help into a lifetime of minimal employment and poverty. The ASPIRA consent decree won by PRLDEF in 1974 established the right of students with limited English to receive bilingual education in New York City’s public schools.

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.