So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
CLARENCE THOMASIf Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
More Clarence Thomas Quotes
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The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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But what I believe is that if a person’s individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don’t issue mandates to businesses that you’ve got to do this and you’ve got to do that.
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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 certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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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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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.
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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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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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I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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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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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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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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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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