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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.

Clarence Thomas

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 was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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Myself Old Run Sympathy System
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
You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They’re people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.
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Choice Distraction Fight Life People Yourself
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
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
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 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 do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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Freedom Myself Ourselves Risk Thinking
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
People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.
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Children Drink Fact Funny Myself People Water
I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your own life, you develop sort of the tools you need to continue on, or to do better.
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Development Fortunate Life Myself Respond Thinking Tools
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
The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it. If followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.
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Authority Constitution Power Protection Result Society
I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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Education Learning Liberty Myself Strong
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

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