You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
CLARENCE THOMASWhen you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it’s at the bottom. It’s the people who are in school systems that don’t educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.
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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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I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
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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 certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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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.
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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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Oh, I don’t think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That’s not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he’d prefer me to do it than somebody else.
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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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In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today’s decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.
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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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Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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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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