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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.

Clarence Thomas

Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.
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Difference Myself Race Sensitive Sex
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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Equality Government Law Protection Recognition Respect
The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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Black Creation Fantasy Growth People Wrong
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 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
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
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
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
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 sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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Myself Old Run Sympathy System
So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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Action Conversation Honesty Ourselves
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
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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Constitution Faith God Judgement People
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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Development Fortunate Life Myself Respond Thinking Tools

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