Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
CLARENCE THOMASPeople 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.
More Clarence Thomas Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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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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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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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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