The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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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.
More Clarence Thomas Quotes
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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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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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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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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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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.
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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 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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And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
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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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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 grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.
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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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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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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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