My 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.
CLARENCE THOMASI agree with the (Supreme Court’s) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.
More Clarence Thomas Quotes
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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 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 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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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your own life, you develop sort of the tools you need to continue on, or to do better.
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Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.
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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 was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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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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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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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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To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
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I have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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