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And I don’t think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there’s another set of moral codes, but I don’t think government has a role.

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
I have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
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Improvement Magic Myself People Thinking
It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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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
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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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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The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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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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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 certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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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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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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Any 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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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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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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And I don’t think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there’s another set of moral codes, but I don’t think government has a role.

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