In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today’s decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.
CLARENCE THOMASMy 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.
More Clarence Thomas Quotes
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It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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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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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 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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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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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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Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
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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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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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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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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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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.
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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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Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.
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