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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.

Clarence Thomas

You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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Angel Black Thinking White Yourself
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
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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Attitude Best Character Education Goodness Inspirational
It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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Mission Person Success
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
I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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Education Learning Liberty Myself Strong
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
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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Authority Constitution Power Protection Result Society
I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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Environment Growth Myself Proud Religious
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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Choice Distraction Fight Life People Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.
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College Life Myself Rejection

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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