"It's a tangled situation, the sort of mess that results when civil rights comes to mean not freedom of association, but the reverse: compulsory association. When we hear the term civil rights nowadays, we instantly know we are in for more, not less, government power over our private lives. Civil rights has become shorthand for state coercion. Homosexuals are rapidly being added to the roster of victim categories who may use state power to force others to accept them. 'Civil rights,' in this baneful sense, trumps all religious, moral, and other personal reservations."
--Joseph Sobran
"My parents have taught me to always be proud of my ethnic background. ... On my father's side, I am African-American. On my mother's side, I am Thai. Truthfully, I feel very fortunate, and EQUALLY PROUD, to be both African-American and Asian! The critical and fundamental point is that ethnic background ... should NOT make a difference ... The bottom line is that I am an American ... and proud of it! Now, with your cooperation, I hope I can just be a golfer and a human being."
--Tiger Woods
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