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The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

Clarence Thomas

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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Action Freedom Liberty Place Religious
You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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Angel Black Thinking White Yourself
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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Breathe Fight Immoral Learning Myself Person Reading Separate Thinking White Writing Wrong
And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
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Angry God Myself Right Thankful
So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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Action Conversation Honesty Ourselves
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 only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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Decision People Power Quick Responsibility
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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Liberty Myself Negative Radical
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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Life Luxury Myself Negative
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
Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.
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Fortunate Law Need Politics Reality Reason
I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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Education Learning Liberty Myself Strong
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
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
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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Friendship Myself Popular Search Soul Thinking Win
I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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Freedom Myself Ourselves Risk Thinking

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