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The courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior. The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.

Clarence Thomas

Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.
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Difference Myself Race Sensitive Sex
Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.
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Fortunate Law Need Politics Reality Reason
You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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Angel Black Thinking White Yourself
But what I believe is that if a person’s individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don’t issue mandates to businesses that you’ve got to do this and you’ve got to do that.
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Believe Business Issues Person Violence Yourself
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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Action Freedom Liberty Place Religious
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
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
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Education Family Industry Myself People Reading
A theory deeply etched in our law is that a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.
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Break Fight Freedom Law Ourselves Punishment Society Talk Theory
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
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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Difference Impartial Judgement Law
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
I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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Education Learning Liberty Myself Strong
The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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Decision People Power Quick Responsibility
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
I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.
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Liberty Myself Negative Radical
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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The courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior. The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.

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