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" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Speeches
TV
Almost
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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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" 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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" Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome. "
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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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" I do think that our freedoms are at risk. "
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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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" 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 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'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings. "
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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 hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine. "
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People
People Say
" I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle. "
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Admit
People
" 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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Reality
Need
" 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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Choices
You
" My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies. "
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Before
Brother
Grandparents
" 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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Who
People
" I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA. "
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Talk
Within
You
" 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
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" I went into the seminary when I was 16. "
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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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Who
People
" 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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Man
You
Attitude
" 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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Always
Never
" 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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People
" 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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" 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
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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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Government
People
Run
" I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. "
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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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Say
You
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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" 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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