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.
CLARENCE THOMASA judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.
More Clarence Thomas Quotes
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My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
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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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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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The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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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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The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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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 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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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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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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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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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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And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
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I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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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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