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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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" Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else. "

Clarence Thomas

Attitude

Think

Style

" 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. "

" It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think. "

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

" There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black. "

" I went into the seminary when I was 16. "

Clarence Thomas

Seminary

" Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that. "

" It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous. "

" I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system. "

" 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. "

" We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964. "

Clarence Thomas

Before

Rights

" 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. "

" There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. "

" I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. "

" The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong. "

Clarence Thomas

Way

People

" I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run. "

" I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist. "

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

" Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. "

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

" I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle. "

" 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. "

" It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them. "

" I do think that our freedoms are at risk. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies. "