Sotomayor Honors Pre-Supreme Court Commitment to Speak at Community College
Justice Sonia Sotomayor told graduates at a South Bronx community college Friday evening that her family is “a lot like your family.”
Sotomayor honored a commitment to speak at Hostos Community College, delayed after she was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, the New York Times reports. Her mother is a 1973 nursing graduate of the bilingual college. Voice of America had a short article on Sotomayor’s speech.
“All of you who have come from a foreign land in this audience, all of you who are the first college graduates in your families, all of you who have struggled so hard to get where you are, you are living proof, like my brother and I, that we can make it,” Sotomayor told the graduates.
Earlier in the day, Sotomayor returned to the Bronx housing project where she spent part of her childhood for a ceremony to rename the development in her honor, the Associated Press reports. She told how she was inspired to pursue public service by a visit to the project by Robert Kennedy in 1958.
The New York Daily News also covered Sotomayor’s New York visits.
