Clarence Thomas Quotes

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• 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.

  Clarence Thomas

  Wings, Ku Klux Klan, White

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• Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

  Clarence Thomas

  Respect, Government, Law

  Concurring in Adarand v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 1995.

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• Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

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  Inspirational, Education, Integrity

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• To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

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  Race, Humanity, Denial

  "The New Republic Calls Out Harry Reid on Clarence Thomas". DinoCrat.com, December 2004.

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• The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker... Judging requires a certain impartiality.

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  Jobs, Law, Differences

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• I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that's your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.

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  Stupid, Smart, Years

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• I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

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  Philosophy, Believe, Rights

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• The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

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  Responsibility, People, Decision

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• Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in our country. It is time to see what we have in common, what we have to share as human beings and citizens.

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  Country, Moving, Citizens

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• The absolute worst I have ever been treated, the worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me, are by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia.

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  People, Done, Savannah

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• A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

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  People, Judging, Constitution

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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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  Thinking, Government, People

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• A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister... For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.

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  Courage, Truth, Justice

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• I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.

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  Believe, Equality, Race

  Adarand v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 1995.

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• Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt the new black stereotype above all and to demand conformity to that norm... [However], I assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Long

  Clarence Thomas' Speech to the National Bar Association in Memphis, Tennessee, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 28, 1998.

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• In my humble opinion, those who come to engage in debates of consequence, and who challenge accepted wisdom, should expect to be treated badly. Nonetheless, they must stand undaunted. That is required. And that should be expected. For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.

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  Courage, Humble, Bravery

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• It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

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  Inspirational, Goal, Purpose

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• People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

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  Kids, People, Water

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• Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to be a radical, not a conservative. I no longer cared to play that game ... The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds - social, economic, even ethnic - yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but that did not mean we had to think alike

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  Kings, Mean, Thinking

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• I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

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  Country, Love Is, Hands

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been motivated, in part, by good intentions cannot provide refuge from the principle that under our Constitution, the government may not make distinctions on the basis of race.

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  Equality, Law, Race

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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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  Thinking, Years, Bugs

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• The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it....[I]f followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.

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  Expansion, Doe, Might

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• The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority. The First Amendment, for example, is fittingly celebrated for preventing Congress from "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion or "abridging the freedom of speech." The Second Amendment similarly appears to contain an express limitation on the government's authority.

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  Exercise, Government, Freedom Of Speech

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• Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.

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  Sex, Differences, Race

  "Clarence Thomas: Supreme Court Injustice" by Steve Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2014.

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