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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.

Clarence Thomas

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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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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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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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.
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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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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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I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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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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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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The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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I agree with the (Supreme Court’s) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.
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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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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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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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Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.
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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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