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Clarence Thomas

Even as someone who’s labeled a conservative – I’m a Republican I’m black, I’m heading up this organization in the Reagan administration – I can say that conservatives don’t exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they’re welcome.
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Black Citizenship Identity Myself Organization
It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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Mission Person Success
The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it. If followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.
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The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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Environment Growth Myself Proud Religious
It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I’m supposed to think.
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Control Education Myself Thinking
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it’s at the bottom. It’s the people who are in school systems that don’t educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.
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Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.
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We’ve talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.
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I have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
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Improvement Magic Myself People Thinking
If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
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Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
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Discrimination Economy Myself Road Service Travel
In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today’s decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.
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A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.
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When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.
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Children Color Ideas Myself Skin Yourself
The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker… Judging requires a certain impartiality.
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