You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
CLARENCE THOMASI was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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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.
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I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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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.
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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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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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I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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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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The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it. If followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.
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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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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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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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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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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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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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