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

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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 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."

Body

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

People

"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."

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

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"But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions."

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"I' been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings."

Self

"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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"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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"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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