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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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It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.
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I see myself as an educator.
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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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The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.
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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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Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.
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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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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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But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.
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For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977.
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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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But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.
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I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.
Anita Hill
The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life.
Anita Hill
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.
Anita Hill
What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.
Anita Hill
During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.
Anita Hill
I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.
Anita Hill
Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.
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I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
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My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about.
Anita Hill
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.
Anita Hill
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.
Anita Hill
One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
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I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant.
Anita Hill
When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.
Anita Hill
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.
Anita Hill
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.
Anita Hill
In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.
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I became the messenger who had to be killed.
Anita Hill
You cant always expect a certain result but you can expect to do your best.
Anita Hill
But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues political issues gender issues that people need to be educated about.
Anita Hill
As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
Felix Frankfurter
The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline."
Alan Dershowitz
I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.
Paul Castellano
Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.
Timothy West
If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
Arthur E. Waite
All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.
Andrew Fletcher
One camp accepts the Court's limits on contributions but urges the reinstatement of spending caps - even if this requires a constitutional amendment subjecting political speech, if not pornography, to government regulation.
James L. Buckley
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
Jean de la Bruyere
I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.
Julius Erving
I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.
Nina Totenberg
And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya!
Julius Rosenberg
I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
John Ashcroft
Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.
Robert Walpole