The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
CLARENCE THOMASAny discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
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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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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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I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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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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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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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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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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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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People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.
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A theory deeply etched in our law is that a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.
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I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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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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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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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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