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calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.
Anita Hill
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Anita Hill
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 30
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Feminist
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Lone Tree
Oklahoma
Anita Faye Hill
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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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We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.
Anita Hill
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.
Anita Hill
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.
Anita Hill
I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant
Anita Hill
I became the messenger who had to be killed
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The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life
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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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During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.
Anita Hill
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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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
Anita Hill
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.
Anita Hill
The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination
Anita Hill
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.
Anita Hill
But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.
Anita Hill
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.
Anita Hill
In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since
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When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.
Anita Hill
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.
Anita Hill
