To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
CLARENCE THOMAS
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.
More Clarence Thomas Quotes
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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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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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Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.
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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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When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.
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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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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 was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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But what I believe is that if a person’s individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don’t issue mandates to businesses that you’ve got to do this and you’ve got to do that.
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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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.
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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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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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The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it. If followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.
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The courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior. The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.
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