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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. "

Clarence Thomas

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

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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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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 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 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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" 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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" The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong. "

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