It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I’m supposed to think.
CLARENCE THOMAS
So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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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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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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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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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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I have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
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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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And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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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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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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I think segregation is bad, I think it’s wrong, it’s immoral. I’d fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don’t need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write.
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To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
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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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