I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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.
More Clarence Thomas Quotes
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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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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 was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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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 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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Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.
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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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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.
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We’ve talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.
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Oh, I don’t think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That’s not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he’d prefer me to do it than somebody else.
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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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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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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 think segregation is bad, I think it’s wrong, it’s immoral. I’d fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don’t need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write.
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