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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. "
Clarence Thomas
Vote
Black
Just
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" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
God
Live
Think
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Angry
Believe
Proud
" There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black. "
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People
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" I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. "
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Ayn Rand
Really
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Man
You
Attitude
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Back
Think
Friends
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Write
Who
People
" My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man. "
Clarence Thomas
Never
He
Work
" I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings. "
Clarence Thomas
Malcolm
Been
Malcolm X
" I've probably given more speeches, been on TV more than any other member of the Court - or almost any other member of the Court. "
Clarence Thomas
Speeches
TV
Almost
" I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. "
Clarence Thomas
Up
People
Wrong
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Life
Grandparents
You
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Look
Black
Think
" I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine. "
Clarence Thomas
Self-Esteem
People
People Say
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Say
You
People
" I still have a 15¢ sticker on the frame of my law degree. It's tainted, so I just leave it in the basement. "
Clarence Thomas
Still
Law
Leave
" I do think that our freedoms are at risk. "
Clarence Thomas
Freedoms
Our
Risk
" I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle. "
Clarence Thomas
Dishwasher
Admit
People
" And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now. "
Clarence Thomas
Believe
Angry
God
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Laws
Reality
Need
" I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. "
Clarence Thomas
America
Philosophy
Group
" My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies. "
Clarence Thomas
Before
Brother
Grandparents
" You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels. "
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Were
White
Think
" The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong. "
Clarence Thomas
Way
Up
People
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Road
Speed
Service
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Believe
I Believe
Person
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Black
Welcome
Republican
" I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes. "
Clarence Thomas
Very
Strong
Yes
" It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think. "
Clarence Thomas
Tell
Will
Educated
" We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964. "
Clarence Thomas
Before
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