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“Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.”

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Anthony Kennedy served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, born on July 23, 1936. He is highly respected in the legal community for his fairness and wisdom. more

“Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to be a radical, not a conservative. I no longer cared to play that game ... The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds - social, economic, even ethnic - yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but that did not mean we had to think alike”

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

Fountainhead Atlas

Author:Clarence Thomas

“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.”

World Turns Technology Economy Critical Speed Discrimination

Book:Clarence Thomas -- Confronting the Future: Selections from the Senate Confirmation Hearings and Prior Speeches

Source: Clarence Thomas -- Confronting the Future: Selections from the Senate Confirmation Hearings and Prior Speeches

“When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.”

Said Ideas Kids Certain Color Skins Supposed To Be Neighborhood

Author:Clarence Thomas

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