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Clarence Thomas


American
June 23, 1948
Judge
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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.


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I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
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I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.


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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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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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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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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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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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