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

Clarence Thomas

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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