Even After Death Threats, Anita Hill Has No Regrets About Testifying Against Clarence Thomas
'Realizing that I was not alone in facing this kind of scrutiny and actual hostility, was affirming,' she says.
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I had important information about an individual who was picked to sit for a lifetime appointment on our country’s highest court. It was not just a professional duty as a lawyer, but I believed it was my ethical responsibility to come forward in the best way and the most effective way that I could — and that’s what I did. …
Thirty years later, I’m here to say that even though Clarence Thomas was confirmed, I do believe that what I did was effective because it opened the conversation publicly in a way that had never been done before. I’ve heard from people whose lives have been changed because that conversation was open.
— Anita Hill, speaking about her choice to come forward and testify that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her, during an NPR interview to promote her new book, Believing (affiliate link).
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