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

Clarence Thomas

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

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

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

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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. "

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

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" My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things. "

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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 went into the seminary when I was 16. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist. "

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

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