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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.

Clarence Thomas

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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Mission Person Success
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
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
I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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Freedom Myself Ourselves Risk Thinking
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
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
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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Change Decision Government Institution Marriage Ourselves Society
You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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Angel Black Thinking White Yourself
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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Constitution Faith God Judgement People
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
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 truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.
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Break Dance Design Fashion Responsibility Truth
The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.
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College Life Myself Rejection
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
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
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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