I don’t really have the luxury to be bitter. I don’t have the luxury of having negative things in my life.
CLARENCE THOMASThe myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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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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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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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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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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Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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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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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
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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 certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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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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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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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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My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.
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