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.
CLARENCE THOMASMy 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.
More Clarence Thomas Quotes
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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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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Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.
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I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it.
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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
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The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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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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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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I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.
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If 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.
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Even 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.
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