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You can't always expect a certain result, but you can expect to do your best.

Anita Hill

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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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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 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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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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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 became the messenger who had to be killed
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For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977
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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 see myself as an educator.
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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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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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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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I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.
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The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
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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 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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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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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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calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.
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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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