I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
CLARENCE THOMASI don’t know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching – ’cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.
More Clarence Thomas Quotes
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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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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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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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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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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Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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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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I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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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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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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I agree with the (Supreme Court’s) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.
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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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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.
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