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.
CLARENCE THOMASThe only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker… Judging requires a certain impartiality.
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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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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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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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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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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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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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And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
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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 have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
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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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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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