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Clarence Thomas

American Judge

Born: Jun 23, 1948

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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

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. Clarence Thomas

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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. Clarence Thomas

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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. Clarence Thomas

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

People Black Way About Myths Wrong South Up Grew Created

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