Clarence Thomas Quotes

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.
Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.
We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.
And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.
I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.
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.
I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.
I still have a 15¢ sticker on the frame of my law degree. It's tainted, so I just leave it in the basement.
I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.
I went into the seminary when I was 16.
I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.
If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.
It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.
It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.
I've probably given more speeches, been on TV more than any other member of the Court - or almost any other member of the Court.
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
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 liberty to do other things.
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