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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.

Clarence Thomas

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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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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Country Hands Kind Love Myself Patriot People Work
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.
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Discrimination Economy Myself Road Service Travel
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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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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Administration Attitude Myself Thinking
I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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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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College Life Myself Rejection
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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Civil Right Talk Time War
I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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Freedom Myself Ourselves Risk Thinking
I have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
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Improvement Magic Myself People Thinking
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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Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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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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I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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Myself Old Run Sympathy System
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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A theory deeply etched in our law is that a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.
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Break Fight Freedom Law Ourselves Punishment Society Talk Theory

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