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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

~Clarence Thomas

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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.

~Clarence Thomas

Topics: Adult Afraid Along Been Being Bigots Fearing Flowing Grown Klan Left-Wing People Pursued Starting Up Where White Wonder Wrong

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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 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

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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

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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. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera.

~Clarence Thomas

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

~Clarence Thomas

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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

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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.

~Clarence Thomas

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

~Clarence Thomas

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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

Topics: Angry Believe Environment God Going Grew Now Priest Proud Religious Right Thank Thank God Up Would I Believe I Believe In

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: June 23rd, 1948

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