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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. "
Clarence Thomas
Grandfather
Who
People
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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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" I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. "
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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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" 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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Got
College
" 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'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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" My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies. "
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Before
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Grandparents
" 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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Angry
Believe
Proud
" 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 went into the seminary when I was 16. "
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Seminary
" 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
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Vote
Black
Just
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Government
People
Run
" 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
Educated
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Say
You
People
" I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine. "
Clarence Thomas
Self-Esteem
People
People Say
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Algebra
Math
New
" 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
" 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
" I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes. "
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Very
Strong
Yes
" 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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Problems
Look
People
" 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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Road
Speed
Service
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Look
Black
Think
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Man
You
Attitude
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
God
Live
Think
" I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle. "
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Dishwasher
Admit
People
" I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. "
Clarence Thomas
Partial
Ayn Rand
Really
" 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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Write
Who
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
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" And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now. "
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Angry
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