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"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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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
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"I would not like to be the only woman on the court."
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"There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court."
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"It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated."
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"I didn't attend any of the court proceedings."
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"Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court."
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"I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court."
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"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."
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"This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question."
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"I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial."
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"I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women."
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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."
Career

"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."
People

"I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself."
People

"In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since."
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"Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before."
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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."
History

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