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.
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.
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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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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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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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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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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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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 cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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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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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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To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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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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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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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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The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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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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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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Oh, I don’t think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That’s not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he’d prefer me to do it than somebody else.
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The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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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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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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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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I don’t know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching – ’cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.
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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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