It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I’m supposed to think.
CLARENCE THOMASIt 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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I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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I have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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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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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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And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
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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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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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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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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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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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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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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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I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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