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

Clarence Thomas

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

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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