Quotes by Clarence Thomas

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Clarence Thomas is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court.
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My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liber...

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Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.

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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

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My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

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I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

Clarence Thomas

I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.

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And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

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And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

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I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it. I was going to be a priest; I'm proud of it. And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

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There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard.

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You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

Clarence Thomas

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very har...

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The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

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We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

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The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

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It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

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I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

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I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

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I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

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I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

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Author Bio

  • NameClarence Thomas
  • DescriptionAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • BornJune 23, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJudge; Lawyer