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Clarence Thomas

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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Action Conversation Honesty Ourselves
We’ve talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.
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Civil Right Talk Time War
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.
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Liberty Myself Negative Radical
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.
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Constitution Faith God Judgement People
I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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Environment Growth Myself Proud Religious
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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Control Education Myself Thinking
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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Equality Government Law Protection Recognition Respect
I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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Education Learning Liberty Myself Strong
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
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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Belief God Government Life Live Moral Myself People Thinking
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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Black Break Fact Production Rule Willing
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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Believe Business Issues Person Violence Yourself
To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
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Deep Human Humanity Ourselves Race
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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Education Family Industry Myself People Reading
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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Attitude Freedom Liberty Man Responsibility Talk View Yourself
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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Action Freedom Liberty Place Religious

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