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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

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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I agree with the (Supreme Court’s) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.
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Discrimination Illegal Judgement Myself Race
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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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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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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The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.
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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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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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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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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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I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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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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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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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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I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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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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