"As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly."

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I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

— Clarence Thomas