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" You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels. "
Clarence Thomas
Were
White
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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
" I went into the seminary when I was 16. "
Clarence Thomas
Seminary
" 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
Math
New
" 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
" 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
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. "
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Speeches
TV
Almost
" 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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God
Live
Think
" 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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Bad
Fight
Need
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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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Laws
Reality
Need
" 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
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Road
Speed
Service
" 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
" 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
" Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. "
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Good
Best
Doors
" I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. "
Clarence Thomas
View
Point Of View
Black
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Write
Who
People
" 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. "
Clarence Thomas
Good
Train
Destination
" 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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Black
Welcome
Republican
" I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes. "
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Very
Strong
Yes
" 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
" 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
" I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings. "
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Malcolm
Been
Malcolm X
" 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
" 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 do think that our freedoms are at risk. "
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Freedoms
Our
Risk
" 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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Tell
Will
Educated