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I don’t really have the luxury to be bitter. I don’t have the luxury of having negative things in my life.

Clarence Thomas

I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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Environment Growth Myself Proud Religious
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
I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They’re just my kind of people.
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Country Hands Kind Love Myself Patriot People Work
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
I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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Believe Foundation Myself Philosophy Right
So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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Action Conversation Honesty Ourselves
I don’t know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching – ’cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.
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Friendship Myself Popular Search Soul Thinking Win
I don’t really have the luxury to be bitter. I don’t have the luxury of having negative things in my life.
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Life Luxury Myself Negative
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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Black Crime Drugs Education People Problem Reality Society System Yourself
Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in our country. It is time to see what we have in common, what we have to share as human beings and citizens.
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Citizenship Country Goodness Human Ourselves Time
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
It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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Mission Person Success
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
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
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

I don’t really have the luxury to be bitter. I don’t have the luxury of having negative things in my life.

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