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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. "
Clarence Thomas
Liberal
Always
Never
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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 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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" You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels. "
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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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Believe
I Believe
Person
" 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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Who
People
" 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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Look
People
" 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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Same
Drink
Kid
" 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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You
People
" 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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Will
Educated
" 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. "
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Government
People
Run
" 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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Up
People
Wrong
" 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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Algebra
Math
New
" 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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Speeches
TV
Almost
" 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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Think
My Own
Decisions
" I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system. "
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Wanted
Groups
Get
" 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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Attitude
Think
Style
" The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong. "
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Way
Up
People
" I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that. "
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Bad
Fight
Need
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Dishwasher
Admit
People
" And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now. "
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Believe
Angry
God
" My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. "
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Grandfather
Who
People
" 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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Vote
Black
Just
" 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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Cheap
Choices
You
" 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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Life
Grandparents
You
" 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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Still
Law
Leave
" Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. "
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Good
Best
Doors
" 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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Never
He
Work
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America
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