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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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" 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

" 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. "

" We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964. "

Clarence Thomas

Before

Rights

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think. "

" I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now. "

" You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels. "

" I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA. "

" 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. "

" I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. "

" I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system. "

" I do think that our freedoms are at risk. "

" 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. "

" I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Clarence Thomas

Never

Work

" 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. "

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

Clarence Thomas

Way

People

" I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle. "

" I went into the seminary when I was 16. "

Clarence Thomas

Seminary

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