"We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice."

History, Court, Gender, Justice

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"We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice."

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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?"

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

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"The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past."

Barack Obama, American President

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

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"I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions."

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"I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career."

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"Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself."

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"In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since."

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"When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything."

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"We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice."

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"The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other."

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"Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects."

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"I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community."

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"If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender."

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