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We’ve talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

Clarence Thomas

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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Country Hands Kind Love Myself Patriot People Work
You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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Angel Black Thinking White Yourself
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 was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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Myself Old Run Sympathy System
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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Believe Business Issues Person Violence Yourself
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it’s at the bottom. It’s the people who are in school systems that don’t educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.
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Black Crime Drugs Education People Problem Reality Society System Yourself
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
Even as someone who’s labeled a conservative – I’m a Republican I’m black, I’m heading up this organization in the Reagan administration – I can say that conservatives don’t exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they’re welcome.
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Black Citizenship Identity Myself Organization
So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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Action Conversation Honesty Ourselves
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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Control Education Myself Thinking
We’ve talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.
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Civil Right Talk Time War
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
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
Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.
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Action Freedom Liberty Place Religious
And I don’t think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there’s another set of moral codes, but I don’t think government has a role.
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Belief God Government Life Live Moral Myself People 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

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