SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito discussing his family history at the University of Buffalo Law Center:
When Alito’s father immigrated to the U.S. from Italy, he worked in a factory after graduating top of his high school class. He said he would never have gone to college if it weren’t for a $50 scholarship someone gave him.
“I don’t know who provided it, but I’m grateful to that person because it changed the whole history of our country,” Alito said.
A bacteria can fell us, a trivial scholarship can provide that first step up the ladder.
