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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

Clarence Thomas

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
I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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Environment Growth Myself Proud 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
So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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Action Conversation Honesty Ourselves
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
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.
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Constitution Faith God Judgement People
I think segregation is bad, I think it’s wrong, it’s immoral. I’d fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don’t need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write.
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Breathe Fight Immoral Learning Myself Person Reading Separate Thinking White Writing Wrong
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
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
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
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
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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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Development Fortunate Life Myself Respond Thinking Tools
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
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
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
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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Difference Impartial Judgement Law

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