I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
CLARENCE THOMAS
CLARENCE THOMAS
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Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They’re people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas 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.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas 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 ThomasClarence Thomas Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas The courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior. The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas 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.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I’m supposed to think.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas 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.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas And I don’t think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there’s another set of moral codes, but I don’t think government has a role.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas 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.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.
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