Anita Hill Quotes
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We are very much moved by what we've seen, and many of us are seeking answers and trying to organize our thoughts,
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Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.
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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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During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.
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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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If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.
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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.
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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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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 became the messenger who had to be killed.
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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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When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.
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The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life.
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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 was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career.
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It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.
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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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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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Whether the person you are playing is real or fictional, you try to go to the heart of that person.
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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 see ... the faces of these young people, and I see their hearts and that they really do want change, and that they deserve it. They deserve a better society and so that is what motivates me and I think that I can be a part of creating that and having [been] given that chance, I don't want to blow it.
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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.
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I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better appreciation for the fact that if any community is going to prosper, if any community is going to be seen at its best, that the women in that community have to be viewed as equally as important as the men. And [women] have to be able to live outside of boundaries that are placed on them because of their gender. As well as their race or their religion.
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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 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 did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that
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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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High-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.
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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.
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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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For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977.
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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.
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