Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Tuesday that lasting change in the country depends on citizens, not the courts, as she discussed her new children's book during an interview with "CBS Mornings."

"I don't think whether I'm concerned matters. I think what matters is whether people are concerned," Sotomayor said. "I am a Supreme Court Justice. I get to decide individual cases. I get to speak my mind about them. In the end, I don't change what exists. People change what they don't like or they support what they do like. The power of change is in people."

Sotomayor declined to discuss specifics when asked about her recent dissent in a Supreme Court case that froze a lower court's ruling temporarily barring federal agents from using racial or ethnic profiling in immigration s

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