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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.

Clarence Thomas

Even as someone who’s labeled a conservative – I’m a Republican I’m black, I’m heading up this organization in the Reagan administration – I can say that conservatives don’t exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they’re welcome.
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Black Citizenship Identity Myself Organization
The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it. If followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.
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Authority Constitution Power Protection Result Society
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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Children Color Ideas Myself Skin Yourself
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
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
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
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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Believe Business Issues Person Violence Yourself
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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Break Dance Design Fashion Responsibility Truth
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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Control Education Myself Thinking
I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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Environment Growth Myself Proud Religious
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
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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Citizenship Country Goodness Human Ourselves Time
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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Black Confusion Myself Sacrifice Thinking
I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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Education Learning Liberty Myself Strong
You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They’re people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.
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Choice Distraction Fight Life People Yourself
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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