I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
CLARENCE THOMASOh, 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.
More Clarence Thomas Quotes
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Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.
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A theory deeply etched in our law is that a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.
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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
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I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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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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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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It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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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.
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Even as someone who’s labeled a conservative – I’m a Republican I’m black, I’m heading up this organization in the Reagan administration – I can say that conservatives don’t exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they’re welcome.
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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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I have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
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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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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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