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I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.
Anita Hill
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Anita Hill
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 30
Attorney
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Lone Tree
Oklahoma
Anita Faye Hill
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we need to turn the question around to look at the harasser, not the target. We need to be sure that we can go out and look anyone who is a victim of harassment in the eye and say, 'You do not have to remain silent anymore.
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I see myself as an educator.
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I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do is, you try to be your own authentic self. And then people decide how they're going to interpret that and what it means to them.
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You can't always expect a certain result, but you can expect to do your best.
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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 became the messenger who had to be killed
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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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During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.
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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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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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The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination
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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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calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.
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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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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 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 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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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.
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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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