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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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"During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive."
"When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything."
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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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"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."
"What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court."
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