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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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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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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 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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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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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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If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.
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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 experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life
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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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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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For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977
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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 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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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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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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I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career
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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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calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.
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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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