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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

Clarence Thomas

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
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Angry God Myself Right Thankful
When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.
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Children Color Ideas Myself Skin Yourself
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
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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Discrimination Economy Myself Road Service Travel
Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.
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Black Confusion Myself Sacrifice Thinking
Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.
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Fortunate Law Need Politics Reality Reason
I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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Education Learning Liberty Myself Strong
It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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Mission Person Success
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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Administration Attitude Myself Thinking
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
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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Children Drink Fact Funny Myself People Water
The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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Decision People Power Quick Responsibility
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.
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Friendship Myself Popular Search Soul Thinking Win
I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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Freedom Myself Ourselves Risk Thinking
So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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Action Conversation Honesty Ourselves
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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Attitude Best Character Education Goodness Inspirational

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

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