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

— Sonia Sotomayor

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Q&A session at quarterly meeting of the Philadelphia Bar Association (11 March 2011), as reported in "Sotomayor receives Philadelphia Bar's Diversity Award" by Jeff Blumenthal, in Philadelphia Business Journal (11 March 2011).

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