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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.

Clarence Thomas

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
I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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Freedom Myself Ourselves Risk Thinking
I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I’m on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that’s your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.
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Enough Lesson Prison Problem Smart Stupidity Teaching Yourself
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
The courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior. The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.
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Black Break Fact Production Rule Willing
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
If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
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Government Limitation Power Virtual
But what I believe is that if a person’s individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don’t issue mandates to businesses that you’ve got to do this and you’ve got to do that.
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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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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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Citizenship Country Goodness Human Ourselves Time
I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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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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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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Action Conversation Honesty Ourselves
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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Control Education Myself Thinking
The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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