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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. "
Clarence Thomas
Tell
Will
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" I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings. "
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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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" I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system. "
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" 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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" 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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" I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. "
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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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" You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels. "
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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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People
Black
" 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 Believe
Person
" 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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Good
Train
Destination
" 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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He
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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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Black
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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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Math
New
" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Style
" 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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" 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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