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Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Clarence Thomas

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
I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I’m on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that’s your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.
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Enough Lesson Prison Problem Smart Stupidity Teaching Yourself
I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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Myself Old Run Sympathy System
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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Development Fortunate Life Myself Respond Thinking Tools
I agree with the (Supreme Court’s) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.
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Discrimination Illegal Judgement Myself Race
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
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
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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Break Dance Design Fashion Responsibility Truth
I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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Believe Foundation Myself Philosophy Right
The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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Black Creation Fantasy Growth People Wrong
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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Attitude Best Character Education Goodness Inspirational
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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Life Luxury Myself Negative
If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
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Government Limitation Power Virtual
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
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
A theory deeply etched in our law is that a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.
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Break Fight Freedom Law Ourselves Punishment Society Talk Theory

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