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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. "
Clarence Thomas
Before
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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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Liberal
Always
Never
" And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now. "
Clarence Thomas
Believe
Angry
God
" 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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Up
People
Wrong
" You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels. "
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Were
White
Think
" I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. "
Clarence Thomas
Partial
Ayn Rand
Really
" 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
" I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system. "
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Wanted
Groups
Get
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Angry
Believe
Proud
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Life
Grandparents
You
" 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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Life
Got
College
" I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. "
Clarence Thomas
America
Philosophy
Group
" 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
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Black
Welcome
Republican
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Bad
Fight
Need
" I do think that our freedoms are at risk. "
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Freedoms
Our
Risk
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Same
Drink
Kid
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Very
Strong
Yes
" I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings. "
Clarence Thomas
Malcolm
Been
Malcolm X
" Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. "
Clarence Thomas
Good
Best
Doors
" The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong. "
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Way
Up
People
" There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black. "
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I Am
People
Black
" 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
" 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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Never
He
Work
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Attitude
Think
Style
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Think
My Own
Decisions
" I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine. "
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Self-Esteem
People
People Say
" 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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Cheap
Choices
You
" 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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Believe
I Believe
Person
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Back
Think
Friends