Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
CLARENCE THOMASGovernment cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
CLARENCE THOMASToday, 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.
CLARENCE THOMASThe myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
CLARENCE THOMASTo define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
CLARENCE THOMASYou didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
CLARENCE THOMASWhen I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.
CLARENCE THOMASThe 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 THOMASGood manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
CLARENCE THOMASI have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
CLARENCE THOMASI 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 THOMASThe only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
CLARENCE THOMASI don’t really have the luxury to be bitter. I don’t have the luxury of having negative things in my life.
CLARENCE THOMASAny 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 THOMASI 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.
CLARENCE THOMASEven 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 THOMASThe 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.
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