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" 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. "

Clarence Thomas

Government

People

Run

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Seminary

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

" 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. "

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

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Way

People

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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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People

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