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.
CLARENCE THOMAS- 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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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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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.
CLARENCE THOMASI 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 don’t know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching – ’cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.
CLARENCE THOMASI don’t know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching – ’cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.
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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.
CLARENCE THOMASA 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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I don’t really have the luxury to be bitter. I don’t have the luxury of having negative things in my life.
CLARENCE THOMASI 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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To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
CLARENCE THOMASTo define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
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And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
CLARENCE THOMASAnd I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
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It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
CLARENCE THOMASIt takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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I have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
CLARENCE THOMASI have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
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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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I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
CLARENCE THOMASI don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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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.
CLARENCE THOMASI 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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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.
CLARENCE THOMASDifferences 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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I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
CLARENCE THOMASI do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
CLARENCE THOMASI certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
CLARENCE THOMASGood manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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