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The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life

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Anita Hill
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 30
Attorney
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
Lawyer
Professor
Lone Tree
Oklahoma
Anita Faye Hill
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Changed
Experience
Life
Testifying

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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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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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You can't always expect a certain result, but you can expect to do your best.
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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 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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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 was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career
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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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I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.
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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 myself as an educator.
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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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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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I became the messenger who had to be killed
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Many women are harassed, one in three between the ages of 18 and 34, by one poll. And we need to figure out if, in fact, we are going to enable them to come forward with their complaints, as opposed to enabling harassers and abusers to continue their behavior.
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We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.
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I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.
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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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For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977
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