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.
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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I agree with the (Supreme Court’s) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.
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I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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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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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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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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I don’t really have the luxury to be bitter. I don’t have the luxury of having negative things in my life.
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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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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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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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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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Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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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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The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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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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