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I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

Clarence Thomas

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
In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today’s decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.
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Change Decision Government Institution Marriage Ourselves Society
I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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Freedom Myself Ourselves Risk Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
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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Life Luxury Myself Negative
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
So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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Action Conversation Honesty Ourselves
You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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Angel Black Thinking White Yourself
I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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Environment Growth Myself Proud Religious
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
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 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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Friendship Myself Popular Search Soul Thinking Win

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

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I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

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