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We will miss him deeply as a friend and as a colleague. He was a good man who epitomized fairness, dignity and strength of character.

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Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.

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a good man who epitomized fairness, dignity and strength of character.

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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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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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It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

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We hold that the program , as it appears to have been structured at the time (Harper) was placed on it, differed from parole in name only, ... and affirm the (appeals court's) decision.

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Without performing legal acrobatics, I cannot make the instruction confusing. And I certainly cannot do the contortions necessary to find the Texas appellate court's decision 'objectively unreasonable.

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the demeaning treatment Anita Hill received before the all-male committee.

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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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Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

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But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.

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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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I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

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I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

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I came from the people that they're leading I didn't come from the leadership ranks, I came from among the people I'm most concerned about.

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This detention falls squarely within the federal government's war powers, and we lack the expertise and capacity to second-guess that decision.

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When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

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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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I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

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But Sen. Charles Schumer ( news , bio , voting record ), a New York Democrat, opposed Roberts, warning there's a reasonable danger ... the most radical justice on the Supreme Court.

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The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress regulatory authority. The First Amendment, for example, is fittingly celebrated for preventing Congress from 'prohibiting the free exercise' of religion or 'abridging the freedom of speech.' The Second Amendment similarly appears to contain an express limitation on the governments authority....This Court has not had recent occasion to consider the nature of the substantive right safeguarded by the Second Amendment. If, however, the Second Amendment is read to confer a personal right to 'keep and bear arms,' a colorable argument exists that the Federal Governments regulatory scheme, at least as it pertains to the purely intrastate sale or possession of firearms, runs afoul of that Amendments protections.

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The state can't undo the harm that was done, but I feel very strongly that if there is any role for the state, it is to protect us from others.

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We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

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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.

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