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.
CLARENCE THOMASI 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.
More Clarence Thomas Quotes
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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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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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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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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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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 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.
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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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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I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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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 was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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