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 bridge… - Sonia Sotomayor

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.

I’d always believed people can change; very few are carved in stone or beyond redemption. All my life I’ve looked around me and asked: What can I learn here? What qualities in this friend, this mentor, even this rival, are worth emulating? What in me needs to change?

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.