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" And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now. "

Clarence Thomas

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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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" But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions. "

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" 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. The NAACP needs to say that. "

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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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" 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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" You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels. "

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" When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and had no idea what we were doing in New Math in the ninth grade. But when I went into the seminary, they had gone the traditional route and taught first-year algebra. "

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" I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. "

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" If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions. "

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" My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who make statements that are unfounded. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't have constructive criticisms, but it should be constructive. "

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" I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. "

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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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" I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA. "

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" I still have a 15¢ sticker on the frame of my law degree. It's tainted, so I just leave it in the basement. "

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" I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it. I was going to be a priest; I'm proud of it. And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now. "

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" I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes. "

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