"I hear people say it affected your self-esteem……" — Clarence Thomas
"I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine."
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59 Quotes by Clarence Thomas
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Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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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 would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick…
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It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college.
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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
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The absolute worst I have ever been treated, the worst things that have been done to me, the worst things…
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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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But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist…
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I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my…
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Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just…
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On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted…
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of…
— David Bowie
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I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the…
— Mitch Albom
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The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
— David Byrne
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Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is…
— Tony Campolo
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I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
— Kurt Cobain
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All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed…
— William J. Clinton
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An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most…
— Spike Lee
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There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder:…
— Al Gore
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