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" I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes. "
Clarence Thomas
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. "
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" I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. "
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" Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. "
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" My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels. "
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" 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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