I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
CLARENCE THOMASYou didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
More Clarence Thomas Quotes
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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 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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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 was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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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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I 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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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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You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They’re people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.
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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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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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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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