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.
CLARENCE THOMASThe only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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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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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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The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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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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People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.
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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.
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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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And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
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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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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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Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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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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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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It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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