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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.

Clarence Thomas

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
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Deep Human Humanity Ourselves Race
So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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Action Conversation Honesty Ourselves
You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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Angel Black Thinking White Yourself
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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Equality Government Law Protection Recognition Respect
Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.
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Black Confusion Myself Sacrifice Thinking
I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I’m on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that’s your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.
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Enough Lesson Prison Problem Smart Stupidity Teaching Yourself
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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Government Limitation Power Virtual
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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Attitude Best Character Education Goodness Inspirational
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
The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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Black Creation Fantasy Growth People Wrong
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
It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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Mission Person Success
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.
CLARENCE THOMAS

Black Citizenship Identity Myself Organization
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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Civil Right Talk Time War
And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
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Angry God Myself Right Thankful
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

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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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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