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

Clarence Thomas

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

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

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

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

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" I went into the seminary when I was 16. "

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" I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings. "

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

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

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

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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 disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. "

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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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